Johan Didrik Frisch (4 May 1835 – 22 November 1867) was a Danish landscape and animal painter.
Didrik Frisch was born upon a farm near Slagelse, Denmark. His father was a landowner. He began his education at the Sorø Academy; a private boarding school. While there, perhaps inspired by Frederik Vermehren, who was a relatives friend, he started feat sketches. These drew the attention of the landscape painter Hans Harder, who was abundantly impressed that he helped him to start his career as an artist.
After some grow old at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he went to Paris in 1857 to continue his studies. While there, he began to play a part his paintings. Originally, he depicted figures, but soon turned to landscapes, then comprehensive the two.
By 1866, however, he had decided to devote himself to animal painting and spent a good deal of times painting en plein aire at the Jægersborg Dyrehave (Deer Park). The in the sky of year, he received a scholarship from the Academy to investigation in Italy. He briefly visited Rome, then went to Florence, where he took taking place with his fellow Danish painters, Otto Bache and L.A. Schou.
During a cholera epidemic progressive that year, he and Schou were both impure and died in Florence within days of each other.
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