DEFREGGER, FRANZ VON Austrian genre painter, was born in Dolsach, in Tirol, on April 3o, 1835, in the old farm house Ederhof zu Stronach. He spent his youth amid the mountains as a farm labourer, and on the death of his father took over the farm, at the age of 23. Two years later he sold his farm, meaning to go to America, but eventu ally went to Innsbruck to study drawing and carving, to which he was devoted from his boyhood. His teacher, Franz Stolz, took him to Munich in 1861. In 1863 he went to Paris, and returning to Munich, studied under Piloty for five years. His pictures, representing the rustic life of the Tirolese, and the struggle of Tirol, under Andreas Hofer, for freedom from for eign yoke, met with success from the first. They made their appeal by the subject-matter. Among his best luiown works are the "Speckbacher" 0869) at the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; the "Wrestlers" (187o); the "Dancers" (1871); the "Return of the Victors" (1876). He is represented in most German museums and also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.