Frits Thaulow

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Frits Thaulow

Frits Thaulow , actually Johan Frederik Thaulow (born October 20, 1847 in Christiania (now Oslo ), † November 5, 1906 in Volendam , Netherlands ), was a Norwegian painter of the 19th century.

Life

Frits Thaulow was the son of the pharmacist Harald Conrad Thaulow (1815–1881) and his wife Nina Munch (1820–1871) as well as a nephew of the museum's founder Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow in Kiel . From 1870 to 1872 he received training at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen . From 1873 to 1875 he was a student of Hans Gude in Karlsruhe . In the following years he kept u. a. in Paris and was influenced there by the French Impressionists .

In 1880 Thaulow, now a staunch naturalist , temporarily turned to his homeland. Together with Christian Krohg and Erik Werenskiold , he fought for an expanded concept of art beyond bourgeois ideals. It is thanks to him, among other things, that the so-called Autumn Exhibition (Høstutstillingen) , an annual presentation of contemporary art in Oslo, was established in 1882 .

In 1886 Frits Thaulow and Alexandra Lasson (1862–1955), a sister of the painter Oda Krohg, married . The marriage came from the writer Harald Thaulow (1887–1971).

In 1892 he moved back to France , where he initially lived in Dieppe . In the following years he participated in various exhibitions, such as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (1895) or the International Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1896, where he received a small gold medal. In 1898, following a stay in the USA , he finally settled in Paris, where he achieved international fame by including his pictures in the salon .

In 1901 he received honorary membership in the Munich, Stockholm and Copenhagen academies.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait by Frederik Collett
    1875

  • A river
    1883

  • Ambiance Du Soir
    1893

  • Ponte Pietra, Verona
    1894

  • Venice
    1894

  • Kveldstemning, Dieppe
    1894–1898

  • Fra Dieppe med Elven Arques
    1895

  • A castle in Normandy
    1895

  • Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris
    1896–1897

  • Moonlight in Beaulieu
    1904

  • Place Marbot
    1904

  • Dordrecht
    1905

Web links

Commons : Frits Thaulow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg views - painters see the city. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-018-3 , p. 195
personal data
SURNAME Thaulow, Frits
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thaulow, Fritz; Thaulow, Johan Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1906
Place of death Volendam (Netherlands)