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)

Baptism of christ

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

Commons : Christen Brun - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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 )

personal data
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

[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. 427

[2] 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 )