Mathias Ferslew Dalager

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Mathias Ferslew Dalager (born January 1769 in Saqqaq , † February 9, 1843 in Trondheim ) was a Greenlandic - Danish - Norwegian artist .

Life

Mathias Ferslew Dalager was the son of the Danish merchant Carl Dalager (1726–1799) and the Greenlander Juliane Marie (1734–1817). He was born in the Ritenbenk colony (at that time still in Saqqaq ) and grew up in the Jakobshavn ( Ilulissat ) colony from 1771 . He attended school in Helsingør and was offered a job as a clerk for the North Greenland Inspector, but preferred to attend the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen , where he was trained in dramatic and heroic figure painting by Ernst Heinrich Løffler .

Mathias Ferslew Dalager was the first person of Greenlandic descent with an art education. In 1792 he created an oval representation of the Ascension , which is located in Ilulissat. He wanted to live as an artist in Greenland, but that was not possible. On May 2, 1795, he married Martha Antonette Reinert in Copenhagen. Finally, in 1796, he became a drawing teacher at the secondary school and the orphanage school in Trondheim. He was also a portrait painter who was allowed to portray important people. He also created cityscapes and was one of the first ship portrait painters in Norway.

However, his artistic talent was probably rather weak, according to other opinions he created high-quality city and scenery views. His works were often reminiscent of the Johan FL Dreiers .

In 1802 his marriage was divorced. In 1805 he was dismissed as a school teacher because of "drink and mess". In 1807 he became a master painter with a private drawing school in Trondheim. He lived in very poor conditions and had to move from door to door in order to sell his art. On June 25, 1842, he married Anna Catharina Hartz for the second time in Trondheim. He died there just six months later at the age of 74.

gallery

  • Depiction of the arrival of King Karl XIV Johann in Trondheim on August 30, 1835

  • Trondheim prospectus around 1820

  • Group portrait of the businessman Ole Sommer and his family

Web links

Commons : Mathias Ferslew Dalager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e biography in Weilbach's artist dictionary
  2. ↑ a b c biography in the Norsk Kunstnerleksikon
  3. ↑ Carl Dalager in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
personal data
SURNAME Dalager, Mathias Ferslew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic-Danish-Norwegian artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Saqqaq
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1843
Place of death Trondheim