Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson

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Self-portrait , 1865

Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson , née Bonnevie (born July 12, 1837 in Christiania , Norway ; † November 28, 1921 there ), was a Norwegian portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Portrait of the husband Lorentz Dietrichson , 1883

Dietrichson was born as the daughter of the expedition secretary Honoratus Bonnevie (1797-1848), later a member of parliament and Trondheim mayor, and his wife Sofie Augusta Baumann (1804-1895). She had eleven siblings, one brother was the future teacher and politician Jacob Aall Bonnevie (1838-1904). She spent her childhood and youth partly in Trondheim and partly in Kongsberg . At the suggestion of Adolph Tidemand , she went to Düsseldorf in 1857 , where she took private lessons from the history and portrait painter Otto Mengelberg until 1861 . At the end of this time the portrait was created, which the Finnish artist Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin , who also studied with Mengelberg, painted of her. On March 31, 1862, she married the Norwegian art historian and writer Lorentz Dietrichson . The young couple went on extensive journeys through Germany and Italy , which Lorentz Dietrichson later stylized as a "vagabond life". In Rome he accepted the position of secretary at the Swedish-Norwegian consulate and worked as a librarian for the Scandinavian Society. The social contacts in the capital of the Papal States also led to encounters with the writers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Henrik Ibsen . The couple's only child was born in Rome, their daughter Honoria Sofie (1863–1934). In 1865 the Dietrichsons returned to Norway. In 1866 they moved to Stockholm , where Lorentz Dietrichson embarked on a career as an art historian in the National Museum and at the university until 1875.

Dietrichson, who was the first Norwegian to receive formal training in academic painting, painted portraits, figure compositions, historical interiors and landscapes in the late romantic style of the Düsseldorf school. Her painting received further impulses through stays with Charles Chaplin in Paris and with Franz Defregger in Munich (1875–1877). From 1878 Dietrichson lived in Christiania again.

Works (selection)

Portrait by Knud Bergslien , 1896

literature

Web links

Commons : Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson  - 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. 429
personal data
SURNAME Dietrichson, Johanne Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonnevie, Johanne Mathilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania , Norway
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1921
Place of death Christiania , Norway