Conrad Freyberg (1842 - 1915)

Conrad Freyberg

Conrad Freyberg was a German artist of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter and sculptor.

Freyberg specialized in equestrian portraits and group portraits of horsemen, combining realistic likeness with delicate rendering. Inspired by the wars of 1866 and 1870-1871, the artist created battle paintings, including The Battle of Sadov and The Battle of Skalica. He later became a portrait painter and also worked in the genres of historical painting, animalistic painting and sports scenes. For his achievements, he received the title of court painter. The master was one of the creators of the bronze monument to Prince Albrecht of Prussia in Berlin's Charlottenburg district in 1901.