Frédéric Fregevize

Frédéric Fregevize, a Swiss landscape painter, was born in Geneva in 1770, and died there in 1849. He lived for a long time in Berlin, where he was elected in 1820 a member of the Academy; he returned to Geneva in 1829, and went to Dessau in 1839. The Berlin National Gallery contains views painted by him of The Lake of Geneva, and The Valley of the Rhone, near Geneva.

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This article incorporates text from the article "FREGEVIZE, Friedrich" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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