Carl Ludwig Jessen

Carl Ludwig Jessen, self-portrait, 1857

The artist's wife

Carl Ludwig Jessen (born February 22, 1833 in Deezbüll , Duchy of Schleswig , † January 4, 1917 there ) was a Frisian painter. He is known to this day as the "Frisian painter". Its importance lies in the description of the North Frisian farming culture.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Jessen worked as a room painter on the Marschhöfe in North Friesland . From 1848–1854 he began self-taught with portraits, in 1853 he gave up the carpentry trade and devoted himself entirely to painting. From 1856 to 1865 he studied at the Copenhagen Academy with Vilhelm Marstrand . Then he returned to North Friesland. On a scholarship he traveled to Paris and Italy ( Rome , Ariccia , Rocca di Papa ) from 1867 to 1868 . 1869-1870 he lived in Klockries , from 1871 to 1875 in Hamburg . He then returned to Deezbüll and devoted himself exclusively to depicting popular life in his North Frisian homeland, particularly on the islands of Amrum and Föhr.

He was the uncle of the painter Benedikt Momme Nissen .

Works (excerpt)

• Selection of some works
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  Old woman at the spinning wheel (1866)

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  Red Room (1869)

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  Portrait Study (1875)

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  Portrait Study (1878)

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  The blue room (1912)

• 1857: self-portrait , Kiel
• 1866: Old farmer , Flensburg, [1]
• 1866: With Jürn Moritzen , Kiel, [2]
• 1868: Italian shepherd family , Flensburg, [3]
• 1870: Frisian farmer with pointed cap , Flensburg, [4]
• 1875: Old woman from Risum , Flensburg
• 1875: Frisian Thing Court , Kiel
• 1876: Old Frisian, seated , Flensburg, [5]
• 1880: The last consolation , Flensburg
• 1903: Group from Nordfriesland , Altona, [6] , found on The World of Theodor Storm , [7]
• 1917: Self-portrait , Flensburg, [8]

Collections

Museums in Hamburg, Hamburg-Altona, Kiel, Flensburg ( Museumsberg ), Husum ( North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum ), Tondern, Niebüll-Deezbüll and Nuremberg have works by Jessen.

literature

• Konrad Grunsky, Klaus Lengsfeld: Painted North Friesland, Carl Ludwig Jessen and his pictures. Husum Verlag, Husum 1983, ISBN 978-3-88042-202-5 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Carl Ludwig Jessen in Hamburg. Artistic search for identity after the German-Danish war of 1864. In: Nordfriesland 19, 1986, pp. 78–86.
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Carl Ludwig Jessen. In: the same: Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in art. Boyens, Heide 2012, ISBN 9783804213463 , pp. 43–54.
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Carl Ludwig Jessen. In: the same: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Boyens Heide 2009, pp. 282–286.
• Nina Struckmeyer: Jessen, Carl Ludwig. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Jessen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Ludwig Jessen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by the artist in the Schleswig-Holstein museum portal

Individual evidence