Hjalmar Kjerulf

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Hjalmar Kjerulf (born April 5, 1821 in Christiania , Norway , † April 25, 1847 in Bonn , Rhine Province ) was a Norwegian painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Lithograph of Heddal Stave Church after a drawing by Kjerulf

Kjerulf, son of the imperial herald and expedition secretary Peder Kjerolf (1781–1841) and his wife Elisabeth “Betzy” Maria Lasson (1791–1873), had five siblings, a sister and four brothers, including the composer Halfdan Kjerulf and the geologist Theodor Kjerulf and Ida Kjerulf (1817–1840), the fiancée of the poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven .

After school, Kjerulf began military training at the military academy in his hometown. In 1843 he passed the artillery and engineering exams there. In 1844 he said goodbye to his unit. In June and July 1844 he was on a cure in Silesia . In Düsseldorf , where he began studying painting in 1844 and associated with painter friends Bernt Lund (1812–1885), Frits Jensen and Hans Fredrik Gude , he stayed until 1846, with the exception of study trips and other spa stays. With the latter, he undertook one in the summer of 1845 Study trip to Norway, on the views of Sogndal and Hallingdal , also a drawing of the Heddal stave church . Health problems led to further cures in Ems and Honnef . From December 1846 he lived in Bonn , where his friend Gude cared for him until his death, due to complications from tuberculosis .

The Norwegian writer Marianne Storberg (* 1974) processed the story of Kjerulf into the novel Brevet fra Betsy (Betsy's letter) , published in 2012 . Before her, the poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven, the former fiancé of his sister, wrote the poem Til Hjalmar Kjerulf (To Hjalmar Kjerulf) on November 15, 1844 . In 1845 it was published in his volume Nyere Digte (Newer Poems) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hjalmar Kjerulf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Klitgaard: Kjaerulfske studier: bidrag til en vendsysselsk bondeaets genealogi og historie . MA Schultz, Aalborg 1914–1918, p. 101
  2. ↑ 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. 433
  3. ^ Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Buddeus'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Eduard Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 389
personal data
SURNAME Kjerulf, Hjalmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania , Norway
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1847
Place of death Bonn , Rhine Province