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Anders Montan , photo from a contemporary dictionary, around 1900

Anders Olsson Montan (born February 13, 1845 in Bröddarp near Söderslätt , Schonen , southern Sweden ; † May 14, 1917 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swedish genre and interior painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Montan, one of six children of Ola Andersson and Karin Pålsdotter, studied at the Copenhagen Art Academy , then at the Stockholm Art Academy . In 1878 he went to Düsseldorf , where he became a member of the Malkasten artists' association in 1884 and remained single until his death. In search of his preferred motifs - expressive, rather dark interiors of old farmhouses, forges, barns, castle and wine cellars as well as the people who live and work in them - Montan traveled to various German landscapes, such as the Lipper Land , where he spent 32 years spent every summer, and the Moselle . Apart from that, he also had it on the industrial interiors of glass works, steel works and mines. He liked to play with the lighting effects of lamps, fire and candlelight. Montan received an order from the Krupp-Gussstahlfabrik to paint in their facilities. As an industrial painter, he created six large paintings, probably for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago . With Henrik Nordenberg , another Swedish genre and interior painter from Düsseldorf, he took part in major Berlin exhibitions, in 1891 in the International Art Exhibition of the Association of Berlin Artists , in 1900 in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Works (selection)

Husförhör (domestic lecture) , 1879
Old woman with coffee cup (coffee hour) , 1882
  • Husförhör (domestic lecture) , 1879
  • Old woman with coffee cup (coffee hour) , 1882
  • Coppersmith at work , 1882
  • In the forge , 1886
  • Glassblowers in the glassworks , 1887
  • In the wine cellar , 1890
  • In the glassworks
  • In the mine
  • In the wire drawing shop , 1908, private property (Iserlohn)
  • Armored plate rolling mill , published in Berlin in 1893 by Meisenbach, Riffarth and Co. as a heliogravure
  • together with Felix Schmidt : 88 illustrations for Friedrich Karl Georg Müller's writing Krupp's Gußstahlfabrik , 1896 (subsequently also appeared in English and French translation)

literature

Web links

Commons : Anders Montan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 436
  2. ↑ Klaus Türk: Pictures of the work. An iconographic anthology . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-531-13358-6 , p. 224 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Scene from a Bessemer works, printed by Meisenbach Riffarth and Co., Berlin 1893 (heliogravure with chine colle), Montan, Anders (1845–1917) / Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany , website in the portal art.com , accessed on October 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Montan, different
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montan, Anders Olsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish genre and interior painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Bröddarp near Söderslätt , Skåne , southern Sweden
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1917
Place of death Dusseldorf