Augusta Jensen

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Augusta Jensen (born January 2, 1858 as Augusta Albertina Eliesson in the municipality of Bro, Värmland , Sweden ; † August 8, 1936 in Karlstad , Värmland) was a Swedish genre , landscape , portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Augusta Eliesson, daughter of the sawmill owner Andreas Eliesson on Agnhammar near Grums and his wife Beata Anderson, traveled to Düsseldorf on her own in 1877 at the age of 19 . There she took private lessons from the Norwegian genre painters Bengt Nordenberg and Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche until 1880 . Then she returned to her homeland, where she married Niels Christian Jensen (* 1862), a Danish business partner of her father, in 1883. In the same year she went on a study trip to Paris . The following year she traveled to Italy via Nice , where she met Genoa , Florence and Pisavisited and spent a long time in Rome . She also visited the island of Capri during this time.

With her husband, Danish consul for Värmland from 1905 , and their five sons, including the later sculptor Peter Jensen (1892–1977), Augusta Jensen lived in a luxuriously furnished villa on Orrholmen near Karlstad. The landlady, who was interested in music and was a pianist herself, gave music evenings there. Their salons were a focal point of social life. Her guests included the Lutheran bishop Claes Herman Rundgren (1819–1906), the writer Selma Lagerlöf and the poet Gustaf Fröding . Shortly after her death, on Christmas 1936, the villa burned down, and much of her oeuvre was also destroyed by flames.

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Augusta Jensen trained a. a. by copying works by old masters, including those of Botticelli, Perugino, Rogier van Weyden and Terborch. She left descriptions of Roman folk life ( Spanish Steps , Roman youth ) and landscape compositions , portraits ( self-portrait , 1884; Fig .: Svenskt Konstnärslexikon) and flower still lifes as oil paintings and in watercolor, which were valued for their fine coloring and reliable drawing. A memorial exhibition was held in Karlstad in 1937.

literature

  • Svenskt konstnärslexikon , Allhems Förlag, Malmö 1952–1967, Volume 3, p. 270.
  • Augusta Jensen, f. Elieson . Catalog of the memorial exhibition (February 12 to March 7, 1937), Värmlands Museum , Karlstad 1937.
  • Jensen, Augusta . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , appendix, p. 443 (Jenssen).
  • Lennart Edberg, Gunnar Engstrand (editor): Orrholmen. Från ångsågverk till “Den vita staden” . Volume 4 of the series Glimtar från Karlstads historia . Karlstads hembygdsförening, Karlstad 2008, ISBN 978-91-976288-3-9 .

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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. 433
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Augusta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eliesson, Augusta Albertina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish genre, landscape, portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bro Municipality, Varmland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1936
Place of death Karlstad , Varmland