Christen Brun (painter)
Christen Johanson Brun (born May 30, 1828 in Bergen , Norway ; † July 15, 1905 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Brun was the son of provost Johan Lyder Brun (1802-1865) and his wife Karen Claudine Ulrikke (Ulrica), née Pavels (1802-1874), born. After first lessons with the landscape painter Hans Leganger Reusch (1800-1854) from 1845 and with the portrait painter Johan Gørbitz (1782-1853) from 1847, he studied painting from 1848 to 1850 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Karl Ferdinand son 's class. In the years 1850/1851 Brun was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . After a stay in Rome from 1850 to 1852, he returned to Düsseldorf . From 1852 he was a private student of Otto Mengelberg there . From 1860 Brun worked as a drawing teacher at the Royal Drawing School Christiania for about twenty years. Harriet Backer was his student there in 1867/1868. From 1870 he also worked as a technical conservator ( restorer ) at the Norwegian National Gallery . In 1876 he stayed in Modena , in 1889 he traveled to Rome, Paris and Berlin .
Works (selection)
Brun created a large number of paintings based on models, especially religious works by Adolph Tidemand , Carl Bloch , Mengelberg, Guido Reni and Rubens . At his age he also painted landscapes .
- Isaac and Abraham , 1857
- The Street Vendor (A Basket of Ribbons) , 1869
- Young Turkish woman , 1869
- Fisher girl , 1872
- Descent from the Cross , altarpiece in the Church of Sagene , Oslo
- Baptism of Christ , painting in the Skoger kirke in Drammen , replica after a painting by Adolph Tidemand in the Trinity Church in Oslo
literature
- Carl Wille Schnitler : Brun, Christians . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 119 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Christen Brun , biography in the portal nkl.snl.no ( Norsk kunstnerleksikon , I – IV, 1982–1986)
- Christen Brun , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Christen Brun , auction results on the artnet .com portal
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. 427
- ↑ Delia Gaze (Ed.): A Dictionary of Woman Artists . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago / IL and London 1997, ISBN 1-884964-21-4 , Volume 1, p. 207 ( Google Books )
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SURNAME | Brun, Christians |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brun, Christen Johanson (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1828 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergen , Norway |
DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1905 |
Place of death | Christiania |