Friedrich Richard Petri
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Friedrich Richard Petri was a German-born Texas painter whose works recorded life in the original German immigrant settlements, and portrayed Native American tribes in family settings.
Plains Indian Girl with Melon
May Uprising in Dresden
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The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.
Friedrich Richard Petri
…who married Petri's sister Elisabeth, befriended Petri while at the Dresden academy. Petri and Lungkwitz joined other students in the failed 1849 May Uprising in Dresden, an event at the tail end of the Revolutions of 1848 resulting from the refusal of Frederick Augustus II to recognize a constitutional monarchy. In…
Prussian and Saxon troops assault revolutionary barricades in the Dresden Neumarkt
Revolutionary war medal of the May Uprising in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, 1849, obverse, showing the street fighting.
The reverse of this medal shows the names of the leaders of the provisional government Tzschirner, Heubner and Todt, and the dates of the uprising.
The provisional government in Dresden