Fritz Melbye

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Fritz Melbye: Cruz Bay Battery
Camille Pissarro: Fritz Melbye and Pissarro in the joint studio in Caracas , approx. 1854

Fritz Georg Sigfried Melbye (born August 24, 1826 in Helsingør , † December 14, 1869 in Shanghai ) was a Danish painter.

Life

Fritz Melbye was the younger brother of Anton Melbye (1818–1875) and Vilhelm Melbye (1824–1882). Anton introduced him to the technique and subjects of landscape and marine painting, in which Fritz Melbye was successful as a young painter. Melbye had already had a successful exhibition season in Copenhagen , and there also in Charlottenborg Palace , when he set out for the Danish West Indies in 1849 . He settled in Saint Thomas and made friends, probably in the spring of 1850, with the younger Camille Pissarro , whom he encouraged to become a painter as well. In November 1852, the two went to Venezuela , where they toured different regions and lived and painted in the cities of La Guaira and Caracas . In Caracas they shared a studio in 1853. They saw the end of slavery in Venezuela in March 1854.

While Pissarro returned to Saint Thomas in August 1854, Melbye went to the Llanos from April 1855 to April 1856 . The two wrote letters to each other and met again in Paris in September 1856, where Pissarro had become a pupil of Anton Melbye. In contrast to his brother Anton, Melbye was unable to establish himself in the Parisian art scene, while Pissarro broke new ground. Melbye made contacts with art collectors in New York and left Europe in July 1857. He had a studio in New York , where it is documented that between 1861 and 1863 he exhibited his paintings from Newfoundland , Europe and Venezuela for sale at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , and he became friends with Frederic Church . In 1866 he entrusted Church with his studio inventory and traveled to China and Japan. In Beijing he was allowed to paint in the Imperial Gardens .

Works

So far there is no catalog raisonné on Fritz Melbye . Larger collections were in the estate of Frederic Church, which was partly acquired by the Cyrus McCormick family, and in the possession of the Banco Central de Venezuela . In 1979 a bundle of works from the time of Melbye and Pissarro in Venezuela was discovered in the inventory of Church in Olana , the pictures could not yet be definitely attributed to one or the other.

literature

Web links

Commons : Fritz Melbye  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michel N. Benisovich, James Dallett: Camille Pissarro and Fritz Melbye in Venezuela. 1966.
  2. ^ A b c d Regine Gerhardt: In the light of the tropics - Camille Pissarro and Fritz Melbye. 2014.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Mirzoeff : Pissarro's passage: The sensation of Caribbean Jewishness in diaspora. In: Nicholas Mirzoeff (Ed.): Diaspora and visual culture: representing Africans and Jews. Routledge, London 2000, p. 61.
  4. ^ Joachim Pissarro , Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts: Pissarro: Critical Catalog of Paintings. Volume 1. Wildenstein Institute (ed.), Milan 2005, ISBN 978-2-908063-14-1 , p. 104.
  5. ^ A b c Regine Gerhardt: In the light of the tropics - Camille Pissarro and Fritz Melbye. 2014, p. 45, fn. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Melbye, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melbye, Fritz Georg Sigfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsinore
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1869
Place of death Shanghai