Jens Juel (painter)

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Self-Portrait at the Easel (1766)
Landscape near Oresund (1800)

Jens Jørgensen Juel (born May 12, 1745, presumably in Balslev on Fyn , † December 27, 1802 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish painter .

biography

Jens Juel was a student of Johann Michael Gehrman in Hamburg , then he attended the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen .

In 1772 Juel embarked on a long journey from Copenhagen through Germany to Italy. After a longer stay in Hamburg, he traveled to Dresden, where he studied with Anton Graff until 1774 . He probably reached Rome in the autumn of 1774. There he made a portrait of his Danish colleague Nicolai Abildgaard , which fell victim to a fire in 1884. In the autumn of 1776 he traveled on from Rome to Paris. From there he set out for Switzerland in the summer of 1777. There he painted a portrait of the naturalist Charles Bonnet, among other things . This was followed by numerous commissioned works, so that he did not travel home to Copenhagen until December 1779. He arrived there in April 1780.

In Copenhagen Jens Juel was first appointed court painter, in 1782 a member of the academy and in 1784 an associate professor. In 1786 he took over from Professor Johan Mandelberg . Jens Juel was director of the art academy from 1795 to 1797 and 1799 to 1801. Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge were among his German students . In Geneva, Jens Juel got engaged to the Danish Susanne Holm, who died in October 1781 on the way to Copenhagen in Kiel. In February 1790 he married Rosine Dørschel, the daughter of the castle gardener Christoffer Dørschel (1719–1782). This marriage produced several children, most of whom died at an early age. Two of his daughters successively married the same man; the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg .

Juel died in 1802, leaving behind his wife with their seventh child. Rosine Dørschel died in 1831. Jens Juel was buried in the Assistens Kirkegård cemetery in Copenhagen.

Honor

  • From 1972 to 1993 Jens Juel's self-portrait adorned a 100 kroner banknote in Denmark.

Works

Juel painted portraits, including the half-life-size knees of the engraver Clemens, Klopstocks and Christian VII of Denmark , as well as landscapes and genre paintings.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jens Juel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Juel | Gyldendal - The Danske store. Retrieved September 5, 2017 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Juel, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juel, Jens Jørgensen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Balslev on Funen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1802
Place of death Copenhagen