Carl Ludvig Thilson Locher

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Carl Locher with his dog Tiger , photography (no year), Skagens Museum

Carl Ludvig Thilson Locher , also: Carl Ludvig Locher and Carl Locher , (born November 21, 1851 in Flensburg , † December 20, 1915 in Skagen ) was a Danish marine painter , etcher and graphic artist .

life and work

Locher, son of the marine painter Jens Thielsen Locher, father of the Danish sculptor Axel Thilson Locher (1879–1941) and the sculptor Ellen Locher Thalbitzer (1883–1956), father-in-law of the Greenland researcher William Thalbitzer (1873–1958), “still embodies an important one today Personality in Danish art history as he revolutionized marine painting ”.

Locher's first training came from his father. In 1870 he went on a trip to the West Indies ; this is where the first drawings were made. In 1872 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and joined the Skagens colony . In 1875 he studied with Léon Bonnat in Paris ; here who impressed him Impressionism . Locher traveled to Western Europe from Spain to Iceland and Greenland and lived temporarily in Hornbæk . In 1892 he studied the art of etching with Hans Meyer in Berlin . In 1910 he built a house with a sea view in Skagen (Østerby district), where he continued to paint until his death in 1915.

Locher's work documents the development from a sailing ship to a steamboat and the transformation of Skagen from a small fishing village to a popular tourist destination. The most famous pictures include Fiskekuttere i den lyse måneskinsnat (“ Fishing cutter in the bright moonlit night”, 1888), Skagen Rev fyrskib (“ Lightship on the Reef of Skagen”, 1892) and above all Ved ageposten (“The stagecoach”, 1885) - this horse-drawn carriage was the only way to travel between Frederikshavn and Skagen before the railway line opened in 1890.

Picture gallery

  • Coastline on a Cloudy Day (1874)

  • The sailing ship and a steamer at sea (1878)

  • The armored ships Helgoland and Tordenskjold off Kullaberg (1884)

  • The stagecoach (around 1885)

  • Fishing cutter in the bright moonlit night (1888)

  • Coastline with ships (1892)

  • Lightship on the reef of Skagen (1892)

  • Sailing ships off Skagen Sønderstrand (1898)

  • Fishermen on Skagen Beach (1900)

  • The lifeboat goes out (before 1911)

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Locher  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Carl Locher at skagenskunstmuseer.dk (as of December 20, 2018).
  • Claus Olsen: Locher, Carl. on kulturarv.dk (as of December 20, 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Locher on skagenskunstmuseer.dk (as of December 20, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Carl Ludvig Thilson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Locher, Carl Ludvig; Locher, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish marine painter, etcher and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1915
Place of death Skagen