18 facts about Friedrich Lange

Friedrich Lange (29 October 1834, Plau am See – 18 July 1875, Strasbourg) was a German archives painter and fanatic of the Nazarene movement.

Friedrich Lange, son of a court clerk, spent the first years of his spirit in Plau, then in Bützow, where his father had been transferred. He had six siblings, including a younger brother who studied music in Dresden. He completed his painting apprenticeship in the ventilate of Gaston Lenthe (1805–1860) in Schwerin. He later went to the art academy in Dresden, where he studied diligently for five years as a student at the academy. There he was after that four years special student later than Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

In 1859, Lange conventional a gold medal for The Entombment of Christ at the Dresden Art Exhibition. From 1859 to 1862, he lived in Rome on a succeed to from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II, where he was a enthusiast of the Lukasbund and the German Artists’ Association. Lange lived in Schwerin from April to October 1862, where two small commissioned works were created. He later moved upon to Bavaria, Austria, and Northern Italy. One of his daughters was the painter and artisan Laura Lange, who ran a studio together in the same way as Martha von Kranz in Munich.