Jens Rosing
Jens Christian Rosing (born July 28, 1925 in Ilulissat , † May 24, 2008 in Humlebæk , Denmark ) was a Greenlandic writer , artist , director , reindeer breeder , expedition participant and museum director .
Life
Jens Rosing was the son of the writer, pastor and painter Otto Rosing (1896–1965) and his wife Sara Gertrud Vilhelmine Birgitte Siegstad (1900–1988). On May 13, 1952, he married Dagny Nielsen (1928–?), Daughter of the postman Niels Nielsen (1894–1977) and his wife Johanne Pedersen (1901–1976). The geologist Minik Rosing (* 1957) is his son.
Jens Rosing graduated from secondary school in Denmark in 1944. He was then employed by Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel . From 1946 to 1950 he trained as a painter at the art academy. Around 1950 he lived with the Sami for two years and learned how to keep reindeer from them. In 1952 he returned to Greenland and resettled several hundred reindeer in Nuup Kangerlua , thereby establishing a new industry in Greenland. He ran his reindeer farm in Itinnera until 1959 and then moved to Denmark to devote himself to his art. In the following years he took part in several expeditions to Greenland and was director of the Greenland State Museum from 1976 to 1978 . During his time as museum director, the mummies of Qilakitsoq were discovered, one of Greenland's most important archaeological discoveries. From 1960 to 1974 he was vice chairman of Det Grønlandske Selskab .
Jens Rosing has written and illustrated several books on Greenlandic culture. As an artist and painter, he has done watercolor painting, made sculptures and illustrated a variety of other books. He also designed the Greenland coat of arms and created more than 130 designs for Greenlandic postage stamps . He also worked as a short film director, for which he made four short films.
In 1979 he received the Popular Science Prize of the Danish Writers' Association and the Honorary Prize of his hometown Ilulissat, was awarded the Greenland Culture Prize in 1985 , the Lifetime Achievement Prize of the State Art Foundation in 1989 and the Rink Medal in 1990. On June 4, 1997 he received the Nersornaat in silver.
Works (selection)
Books
- 1954: The dragende flok
- 1960: Isimardik, the drabsmand store
- 1963: Sagn og saga fra Angmagssalik
- 1970: Kimilik
- 1973: Ting og undere i Grønland
- 1976: De store konger
- 1979: Himlen er lav
- 1988: Fuglestreger
- 1993: Hvis vi vågner til havblik
Movies
- 1967: Umialik
- 1969: Tasiussaĸ
- 1971: Emilie fra Sarĸaĸ
- 1972: Havet ved Grønland
art
- Havets moder (painting)
- Slædehunde fodres (paintings)
- around 1953: Renkalv
- 1962: Manguaraqa månefærd
- 1963: Decoration of Grønland's seminarium
- 1965: Altar panel in the church in Aasiaat
- 1974–1979: Illustrations for Finn Solomonsen's Fuglene i menneskernes land
- 1987: Medal from Queen Margaret's Archaeological Foundation
- 1989: Medal of the Nersornaat
- 1990: Isbjørne (lithography)
- 1997: Decoration of the Inatsisartut meeting room
Exhibitions
- Ina Rosing: January 8 - April 19, 2009, Jens Rosings (1925-2008) fineste værker - private tegninger, akvareller og småfigurer af dyr , Nordatlantens Brygge , Copenhagen
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
- ↑ Minik Rosing fylder 60 in Sermitsiaq
- ↑ Biography in Den Store Danske
- ↑ Jens Rosing: Greenland's Grand Old Man at philatelicdatabase.com
- ↑ Om Rink-medaljen at dgls.dk
- ↑ January René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN 0904-5554 , p. 65 f .
- ^ Entry in Weilbach's artist lexicon
- ↑ Jens Rosing: Dyr - private mesterværker at nordatlantens.dk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosing, Jens |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosing, Jens Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greenlandic writer, artist, director, reindeer herder, expedition participant and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ilulissat |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2008 |
| Place of death | Humlebæk , Denmark |