Fritz Hauck was a German Orientalist and landscape painter. As the youngest son of the banker Georg Hauck, he was originally destined for the banking profession, and he spent several years working abroad and in his father’s business. He later devoted himself entirely to art and studied painting at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut (‘Städel Art Institute’) in Frankfurt am Main, in Karlsruhe and Munich. He found the motifs for his paintings on numerous trips to North and South America, East Asia, Australia, and Africa (Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1910, pp. 36–37).

Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Ed.) (1910). Rückblick auf das Jahr 1909. Mitteilungen der Verwaltung. 41. Bericht der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, 35–40.