Joachim Frich

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Joachim Frich , painting by Adolph Tidemand , around 1830

Joachim Christian Geelmuyden Gyldenkrantz Frich (born July 17, 1810 in Bergen , Norway , † January 29, 1858 in Christiania , Norway) was a Norwegian landscape painter and lithographer . He is considered a major actor in national romanticism in Norway .

Life

Hundesfoss i Sogn , lithograph after an original by Jacob Calmeyer (1802–1883) in: Christian Tønsberg : Norge Fremdstillet i Tegninger , 1848

Frich, son of the retailer David Frich (1782-1859) and his wife Gertrude Barclay (1782-1838), received his first artistic lessons in Bergen from Lyder Sagen (1777-1850) and Carl Peter Lehmann (1794-1876). From 1834 to 1836 he studied at the Copenhagen Art Academy under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg . Johann Ludwig Lund and Johan Frederik Møller (1797–1871). He then went to the Dresden Art Academy in 1836 , where he was a student of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl . From 1837 to 1839 he lived in Munich . There he was influenced by the painting of Carl Rottmann . He then settled in Christiania, where he played an important role in the art scene in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1841 he became a teacher at the Royal Drawing School there. He also became a member of the board of the National Gallery in Christiania . In 1844 Frich was one of the founders of the Association for the Preservation of Norwegian Monuments of the Past (Foreningen til Norske Fortidsmindesmerkers Bevaring) . With Adolph Tidemand and Hans Fredrik Gude , he influenced the Norwegian national movement. Until 1848 he provided the lithographic material for Christian Tønsberg's publication Norge Fremdstillet i Tegninger (Norway in Drawings) . His main work, six decorative paintings for the dining room at Oskarshall Castle , he created in 1850. He traveled annually within Norway, and he also visited Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1846 and 1855 he went on study trips to Düsseldorf , whose painting school had a strong artistic influence on him, in particular the landscape painting by Andreas Achenbach , Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Carl Friedrich Lessing . In 1855 he traveled on to Paris to visit the World's Fair .

Works (selection)

Fra øvre Telemark , 1852, National Museum Oslo
Landskap i opptrekkende uvær , 1855, Oslo National Museum
  • Cape Elvelands , 1838, Oslo National Museum
  • Høstlandskap , 1848, Oslo National Museum
  • Fra Hallingdal , 1849, Oslo National Museum
  • Landskap, motif från Nummedalen i Norge , 1850, Swedish National Museum
  • Bakkehuset, Pilestredet , 1850, Oslo National Museum
  • Skoglandskap , 1851, Lillehammer Art Museum
  • Fra øvre Telemark , 1852, National Museum Oslo
  • Sommerlandskap , 1853, Oslo National Museum
  • Skogstjern , 1856, Lillehammer Art Museum
  • Fjordlandskap , 1856, Lillehammer Art Museum
  • Fra Lierdalen , 1856, Oslo National Museum
  • Fra Holsfjorden, Ringerike , 1856, Oslo National Museum
  • Landskap i opptrekkende uvær , 1855, Oslo National Museum

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Frich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Haverkamp: The Norwegian artists in Düsseldorf. The cultural transfer between Düsseldorf and the north. 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. 180 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Frich, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frich, Joachim Christian Geelmuyden Gyldenkrantz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian landscape painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1858
Place of death Christiania , Norway