Berent Madsen
Berent Madsen (born January 18, 1845 in Bergen , Norway ; † May 14, 1865 in Düsseldorf ) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Madsen, son of the shoemaker and tanner Berent Madsen, showed an early talent in oil painting and copying small pictures. Under Henrich Bucher and Jan C. Meyer he attended the art school in Bergen. With a circle of artists around Marcus Grønvold (1845–1929) he made trips around Bergen, where he created figure and landscape studies. In autumn 1864 he traveled to Düsseldorf , where he attended the Royal Prussian Art Academy under Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein . In the spring of the following year he died of tuberculosis in the house of his compatriot Morten Müller .
literature
- L. Dietrichson: Adolph Tidemand, hans liv og hans værker . Christiania 1878, Volume 2, p. 102
- J. Bøgh: Bergens Kunstforening i femti Aar . Bergen 1888, p. 110 f.
- M. Grønvold: Fra Ulrikken til Alperne . Oslo 1925, p. 41
Web links
- Berent Madsen , entry in the portal nkl.snl.so ( Norsk kunstnerleksikon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 435
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Madsen, Berent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergen , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1865 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |