Gustav Adolph Mordt

Gustav Adolph Mordt , painting by Carl d'Unker , 1853

Gustav Adolph Mordt (born March 24, 1826 in Christiania ; † July 2, 1856 there ) was a Norwegian landscape painter.

Life

The son of the goldsmith Jacob Andreas Mordt (Morth) (1796-1854) and Berthe Bjørnsdatter grew up for unknown reasons in the orphanage in Christiania (Oslo), where he also attended school. When a teacher noticed the 14-year-old's talent for drawing, he was commissioned to copy a portrait of State Councilor Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (1762–1838). The classical philologist and librarian Georg Sverdrup (1770–1850) took on him as a result and supported him financially.

First Mordt completed an apprenticeship with the Danish painter Carl Anton Saabye and the Norwegian decoration and landscape painter Ferdinand Jonas Gjøs (1790-1852), where he copied pictures of his masters for sale. At the age of 18 he began to paint landscape paintings on his own and was able to sell one to the Christiania Art Association in 1844. With a scholarship he went to Copenhagen, where he continued to paint landscapes, but also took drawing lessons at the art academy. He made friends with the budding portrait and figure painter Ole Peter Hansen Balling (1823-1906), who had also been a pupil of Ferdinand Jonas Gjøs in Christiania and now used figural staffage in Mordt's pictures - and in those of their mutual friend Vilhelm Melbye . The landscape painter Morten Müller also belonged to the group of befriended Norwegian students . In 1845 and 1847 Mordt stayed in the province of Telemark for study purposes . Until 1848 he exhibited seven paintings in Charlottenborg Palace .

From Finnmark , 1854, Oslo National Gallery

Probably during a stay in Christiania in 1848, Mordt met the already famous landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude , which probably prompted him to visit his place of work in Düsseldorf for a short time in 1849 . In the summer of 1850, however, he returned to Norway, where he and the Swedish painter Marcus Larson studied drawing and painting in the central Norwegian fjord landscapes, among others. a. in Sogn , dedicated. The following year he returned to Düsseldorf and was Gude's private student until the spring of 1853. In 1854 he married Gunda Hansen. The last years of his life, during which he lived in Christiania, were overshadowed by health problems, although he was able to sell more pictures to the art association in Christiania. A recovery trip to Dresden in the autumn and winter of 1855/1856 did not bring any improvement. After all, friends from Düsseldorf had to give several of his works in raffles in order to support him financially.

Mordt was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf from 1850 to 1853 .

Works (selection)

• From Sandsvaer. Ved Labrofoss (At Labrofoss) , study, 1847
• Landscape with a Hut (Landskap med seter) , 1848
• Fjord (Gudvangen) , 1850
• Sunset (Solnedgang på høyfjellet) , 1851
• Fra Finnmark (From Finnmark) , 1854, Oslo, National Gallery
• Fra Festningsbryggen (At the fortress pier) , 1848, Oslo, City Museum
• Fra Kronborg slott i Danmark (View of Kronborg Castle in Denmark ) , 1848
• Vestlandsfjord , 1849
• Landscape, motif of telemarks , 69 × 96 cm, signed and inscribed “G. Mordt 50. Düsseldorf ”, Stockholm, National Museum, inv. No. 1272
• Study by Gudevangen and drawings with motifs by Sogn, Stockholm, National Museum
• Skyer og fjell (Clouds and Rocks, Lærdal) , 1850: Bergen, Billedgalleri
• Et Reinsdyr ved fjellvann (Reindeer by a Mountain Lake) , 1852
• Landskab med foss (Landscape with a Waterfall) , 1854
• Stubljan , 1854, Fossebilde , 1856, Bergen, Rasmus Meyers Samlinger

Further works u. a. in the museums Trondheim (Trøndelag Kunstgalleri), Lillehammer (Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling), Bergen (Norges Rederiforbund) and Reykjavik (Art Museum).

reproduction

• Waterfall in Telemark (Rukjanfoss i Telemarken) , lithograph with clay plate by C. Müller after Gustav Adolph Mordt. Baerentzen, around 1840.

Participation in exhibitions

• Charlottenborg Palace near Copenhagen (Charlottenborgutstillingen): 1846–1848
• Norwegian Exhibition Copenhagen (Norsk utstilling København): 1849
• Nordic Exhibition Copenhagen (Nordisk utstilling København): 1850, 1851
• Nordic Exhibition (Nordisk utstilling), Stockholm 1850
• Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Kungliga Akademien för de Fria Konsterna), Stockholm 1850, 1853
• Nordic Exhibition (Nordisk utstilling), Christiania 1852, 1857
• Vienna, art exhibition of the world exhibition (Verdensutstillingen i Vienna), 1873
• Anniversary exhibition (Jubileumsutstillingen), Kristiania 1914

Portrait

• Carl d'Unker : Portrait of the painter GA Mordt. Half figure, 78 × 62 cm; signed: C. d'Unker p. 53 : Oslo, National Gallery

literature

• Henning Repetzky: Mordt, Gustav Adolph . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 90, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023256-1 , pp. 434-435.
• Morgenbladet . Christiania July 9, 1852.
• Illustreret Nyhedsblad. Christiania 1856, p. 112.
• Christiania post. Christiania July 9, 1856.
• Julius Lange: Nutids Art. København 1873, p. 386.
• Lorentz Dietrichson: Adolph Tidemand. Kristiania 1878, Vol. 1, p. 188; Kristiania 1879, Vol. 2, pp. 44-45.
• Lorentz Dietrichson: Nationalgaleriets Samling af Malerier. Kristiania 1887, p. 235, appendix; Kristiania 1893, p. 25.
• Lorentz Dietrichson: Det norske Nationalgaleri. Kristiania 1887, p. 34.
• Mordt, Gustav Adolph . In: Arvid Ahnfelt (Hrsg.): Europe's constituent: alfabetiskt ordade biografier öfver vårt århundrades förnämsta artister . Oskar L. Lamms Förlag, Stockholm 1887, p. 377-378 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Lorentz Dietrichson: Af Hans Gudes Liv og Værker. Kristiania 1898, p. 39.
• Gude, Hans Fredrik . In: Christian Blangstrup, Jens Braage Halvorsen (ed.): Salmonsens store illustrerede Konversationsleksikon. En nordisk Encyklopædi . 1st edition. tape 8 : Grækenland – Horn . Brødrene Salmonsen, Copenhagen 1898, p. 68–70 (Danish, rosekamp.dk [PDF] Only mentioned by name on p. 69 on the right as GA Mordt).
• Rolf Thommessen: Norsk Billedkunst. En historisk Veiledning. H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Kristiania 1904, pp. 83, 89, 90.
• Jens Thiis: Norske malere og billedhuggere. Bergen 1904, Volume 1, Register.
• OP Hansen Balling: Erindringer fra et langt liv. Kristiania 1905, p. 25.
• Rolf Thommessen: August Cappelen. Kristiania 1906, p. 40.
• Nils Hertzberg: Fra min Barndoms and Ungdoms Tid. Kristiania 1909, p. 152.
• Norges art. Catalog of the anniversary exhibition Kristiania 1914 (illustrated).
• Mordt, Gustav Adolph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 125 .
• Einar Østved: Telemark i norsk painting art. Oslo 1942, pp. 36-38.
• Christian Tønsberg: Norge Fremdstillet I tegninger. Oslo 1846-1848.
• Henning Alsvik, L. Østby: Norges billedkunst i det nittende and tyvende århundre. Oslo 1951–1953, p. 150.
• Mentz Schulerud: Norsk kunstnerliv. Oslo 1960.
• Mordt, Gustav Adolph. In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon . II, 1983 (with further literature).
• Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume VII, 1976, p. 523.
• Aschehoug and Gyldendals store norske leksikon. Volume 8, Oslo 1980; Store norske leksikon. Volume 8, Oslo 2005-2007.
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 407 (Fig .: Motif from telemarks ).

Web links

Commons : Gustav Adolph Mordt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gustav Adolph Mordt in Norsk Kunstnerleksikon (Norwegian)
• Gustav Adolph Mordt in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)