Georg Anton Rasmussen
Georg Anton Rasmussen (born August 7, 1842 in Stavanger , † October 23, 1914 in Berlin ) was a Norwegian landscape painter .
Life
Rasmussen received his first artistic lessons in Bergen from Johan Ludvig Losting and Anders Askevold . In 1863 he was a student of Frederik Rohde in Copenhagen and attended the local art academy. He studied under Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1864 to 1867 , where he was also heavily influenced by Hans Gude . The variety of his landscape motifs decreased after 1870, presumably in view of the tourists who preferred to buy fjord pictures . Alongside Adelsteen Normann and Anders Askevold, he became one of the most productive fjord painters and had his greatest successes in Germany. Nevertheless, like his teacher Achenbach, he knew how to never repeat himself despite similar motifs and how to give each picture its own note.
Even after his studies, he kept a place of residence in Düsseldorf, Jägerhofstrasse . From 1868 to 1900 he is noted as a member of the local artists' association Malkasten . In 1899 he moved to Berlin. He lived there at Regensburger Strasse 3. He only spent the summer holidays in his home country, where he also sold directly to tourists.
After 1900 he adapted himself to the spatula technique and strong colors used by Adelsteen Normann .
He shows his fjords backlit with cloudy skies and animated by boats from the local everyday world, in a fresh, almost impressionistic painting style. In the foreground are mostly people and rowing boats, which he painted with as much skill as the mountains, the sky and the water. His pictures were often copied and distributed as oil prints. Some art historians today are of the opinion that his importance as a painter is insignificant because he did not join a Secession movement.
Works by him can be found in the Bergen Picture Gallery, the State Art Museum in Copenhagen , the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, the Dresden Picture Gallery and the Düsseldorf Art Museum .
literature
- Rasmussen, Georg Anton. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 358 ( archive.org ).
- CW Schnitler: Rasmussen, Georg Anton . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Perlite rendehest . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1925, p. 940-941 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Rasmussen, Georg Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 23 .
- Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting.
- The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Mainz 1979, catalog for the exhibition in the Düsseldorf Art Museum, p. 147.
Web links
- Tone Skedsmo: Anton Rasmussen. In: Store norske leksikon . (As of February 20, 2017, incl.snl.no )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rasmussen, painters, Jägerhofstr. 2 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1865
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rasmussen, Georg Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rasmussen, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stavanger |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1914 |
| Place of death | Berlin |