Johann Gottlieb Freyer, ca. (1739-1808)

 

• Was a German painter.

• Born and died in Potsdam.

• Freyer was the son of a well-known woodwind instrument maker in Potsdam.
• As he was only six years old when his father died, he trained with F. G. A. Kirst and continued his workshop after 1804.
• Potsdam was the residence of the Prussian King and the military base of the Prussian armee.
• An important music school for the army was also present in Potsdam.
• Freyer’s workshop was in the ‘hollaendisches Viertel’, a modern centre of commerce in that time.

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