Hans Jørgen Nicolaysen

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Hans Jørgen Nicolaysen (born November 22, 1829 in Bergen , Norway ; † August 30, 1907 ibid) was a Norwegian still life , genre and portrait painter , art teacher and photographer .

Life

Nicolaysen, son of the painter Jonas Nicolaysen from Bergen and his wife Anne Marie Herlofsen, received a craft training from his father. The landscape and still life painter Frants Bøe (1820–1891), who was born in Bergen, introduced him to still life painting at an early age. In 1853 he went to Copenhagen to study . Because of a cholera epidemic, he moved to Hamburg shortly afterwards , where he also only stayed for a short time. In 1854 he received a state travel grant. In 1857 he traveled to Düsseldorf , where he took private lessons with the history and portrait painter Otto Mengelberg . Probably because of the death of his father and to support his widowed mother by continuing his father's workshop, he returned to Bergen that same year. There he tried to build an artistic existence through still lifes, genre paintings and portraits. In 1859 he began to work as a drawing teacher at the public art school in Bergen, where he used his pictures for educational purposes. In 1863, together with the engraver Jahn Emanuel Meyer (1826–1880), he opened a photo studio in Bergen under the company name Meyer & Nicolaysen , which he ran alone until around 1891, when Meyer fell seriously ill in 1879 and died soon afterwards. In 1875 he had already replaced Meyer in his function as drawing teacher at the technical school in Bergens. In 1877 he was permanently employed there. The painter Gunnar Berg was his student from 1882 to 1883 . From 1890 to 1902 he served as director of the Bergen Art Association (Bergens kunstforening) . Nicolaysen was married to Margrethe Marie, née Hofstad (1845–1874), in their second marriage to Anna Louise (* 1837).

Dr. JA Holmboe , photo by Meyer & Nicolaysen , 1868

In painting, Nicolaysen achieved importance primarily through still lifes. As a photographer he created portraits of many artists, such as Carl Bloch , Ferdinand Fagerlin , Carl Gustaf Hellqvist , Jens Adolf Jerichau , Julius Kronberg , August Malmström and Oscar Törnå . He received an award (medal) as a photographer at an exhibition in Stockholm in 1866. He also took part in exhibitions in Hamburg (1868) and Copenhagen (1872). He also took part in the anniversary exhibition of the Bergen Art Association (1888).

literature

  • Johan Bøgh: Bergens Kunstforening i femti aar . Bergen 1888, p. 112 f.
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume XXV (1931), p. 455

Web links

Commons : Meyer & Nicolaysen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. 437
personal data
SURNAME Nicolaysen, Hans Jørgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian still life, genre and portrait painter, art teacher and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1907
Place of death Bergen , Norway