Friedrich Bury
German artist (1763-1823) · Artists · Died at 60
Friedrich (Fritz) Bury was Court painter to the royal courts of Kassel and Brussels, a German painter born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a goldsmith and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and with Anton Wilhelm Tischbein.
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Group portrait with Wilhelmine of Prussia, later on Queen of the Netherlands and her sister Princess Augusta of Prussia with daughter Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel by Bury
Princess Auguste copying the Sistine Madonna![From left: Tischbein, Schütz, Lips, Kayser, Goethe, Bury, Reiffenstein.[3] By Bury, 1787, Goethe-Museum (Düsseldorf)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Goethe2.jpg/500px-Goethe2.jpg)
From left: Tischbein, Schütz, Lips, Kayser, Goethe, Bury, Reiffenstein.[3] By Bury, 1787, Goethe-Museum (Düsseldorf)
About this person
In 1780 he visited for two years the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he met Johann Heinrich Lips, with whom he returned to Hanau at the age of 19 and two month later they traveled to Rome. From November 1782 to July 1785 he lived with a nephew of Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Johann Georg Schütz and Lips in a rear building of the Palazzo Piombino in Via del Babuino 51. Later they followed their landlord to Via del Corso no. 18, now known as the Casa di Goethe, as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also lived and worked there for over a year.
