Frits Thaulow
Frits Thaulow , actually Johan Frederik Thaulow (born October 20, 1847 in Christiania (now Oslo ), † November 5, 1906 in Volendam , Netherlands ), was a Norwegian painter of the 19th century.
Life
Frits Thaulow was the son of the pharmacist Harald Conrad Thaulow (1815–1881) and his wife Nina Munch (1820–1871) as well as a nephew of the museum's founder Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow in Kiel . From 1870 to 1872 he received training at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen . From 1873 to 1875 he was a student of Hans Gude in Karlsruhe . In the following years he kept u. a. in Paris and was influenced there by the French Impressionists .
In 1880 Thaulow, now a staunch naturalist , temporarily turned to his homeland. Together with Christian Krohg and Erik Werenskiold , he fought for an expanded concept of art beyond bourgeois ideals. It is thanks to him, among other things, that the so-called Autumn Exhibition (Høstutstillingen) , an annual presentation of contemporary art in Oslo, was established in 1882 .
In 1886 Frits Thaulow and Alexandra Lasson (1862–1955), a sister of the painter Oda Krohg, married . The marriage came from the writer Harald Thaulow (1887–1971).
In 1892 he moved back to France , where he initially lived in Dieppe . In the following years he participated in various exhibitions, such as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (1895) or the International Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1896, where he received a small gold medal. In 1898, following a stay in the USA , he finally settled in Paris, where he achieved international fame by including his pictures in the salon .
In 1901 he received honorary membership in the Munich, Stockholm and Copenhagen academies.
Works (selection)
Web links
- Frits Thaulow. In: store norske leksikon. February 14, 2009, accessed July 14, 2014 (Norwegian).
- Vidar Poulsson: Frits Thaulow. In: norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved July 14, 2014 (Norwegian).
- Frits Thaulow on artnet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburg views - painters see the city. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-018-3 , p. 195
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SURNAME | Thaulow, Frits |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thaulow, Fritz; Thaulow, Johan Frederik |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1847 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1906 |
Place of death | Volendam (Netherlands) |