Julius Freymuth (1881-1961) - "east Prussian Landscape" Oil On Canvas Signed - 40 X 27 Cm

Julius Freymuth (1881 Cologne - 1961 Nußdorf am Inn) "Landscape of East Prussia" Oil on canvas signed lower right 40 x 27 cm Julius Freymuth was a German landscape painter, draftsman and graphic designer, mainly active in East Prussia. Freymuth received artistic training at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts and the Königsberg Academy of Fine Arts. After 1918 he often stayed in Nidden (Memelland), a fishing village on the Curonian Spit, which was bustling with many artists, especially in summer. Until the end of the Second World War he lived in Rauschen, a seaside resort on the northern coast of Samland. From the 1930s, Freymuth exhibited his landscape paintings at the Königsberger Kunstverein. Two portfolios on the landscapes of Samland and Masuria made him famous. His brother-in-law, the East Prussian Ernst Rimmek (1890-1953), was a well-known horse and landscape painter.