Johannes Larsen
Johannes Larsen (born December 27, 1867 in Kerteminde , † December 20, 1961 ) was a Danish painter of naturalism . He gained fame through co-founding the artists' colony of Fyn painters .
Life
Larsen was born in 1867 in Kerteminde on Funen , the third largest Danish island. In the 1880s he studied at the Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler in Copenhagen under Kristian Zahrtmann . There he got to know other artists from Funen such as Fritz Syberg and Peter Hansen , both from Faaborg . With them he founded the artists' colony of the Funen painters. Larsen's homeland Møllebakken next to Kerteminde became the meeting place for painters, many of them from Zahrtmann's school.
Her ideal was to paint outside - not just the sketches, but the whole painting, whatever the weather. Her pictures have a freshness and energy that was previously not seen in Danish art. When the Funen painters became successful, they were branded as "farmer painters" by traditional artists in a press war in 1907. This brought the collective more sympathy, for example from a group of authors in Jutland , which also included Johannes V. Jensen , who would win the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature .
In 1910 the canning company Mads Rasmussen decided to set up a museum for the Funen arts next to its canning factory in Faaborg. The Faaborg Museum, which still exists today, gave the Funen painters a boost by making their pictures accessible to the public and providing them with financial support. Kristian Zahrtmann, a big fan of Italy, admonished his students to go painting in Italy. With the financial support, Fritz Syberg or the Hansen family, for example, were able to plan longer stays in Italy. Larsen and his wife Alhed Warberg were more likely to travel to Scandinavia.
Larsen was a harbinger of bird painting. He popularized images of birds, especially through woodcuts and smaller paintings. He later received orders for book illustrations and large pictures for public buildings, such as the Queen's reception room in Christiansborg Palace (the Danish Parliament) and the town hall in Odense , the capital of Funen.
There were also some women painters on Funen who struggled to be recognized alongside their male counterparts. Including Alhed Larsen, Johannes Larsen's wife, Anna Syberg, Peter Hansen's sister and Fritz Syberg's wife and Christine Larsen, Johannes Larsen's sister. Her pictures are now regarded as equal and are exhibited in many exhibitions together with the other Fyn painters, but at the moment they had difficulties getting into the exhibitions. Christine Swane, who outlived all of her fellow campaigners, became a member of the Corner artist community at 60 , where she enjoyed greater success and adopted her own Cubist style .
literature
- Erland Porsmose: Johannes Larsen, Menneske, Kunstner og Naturoplever . 2nd Edition. Gyldendal, Kunstbogklubben, Copenhagen 1999, ISBN 87-7807-038-4 (Danish).
Web links
- The Johannes Larsen Museum - Website of the Kerteminde Museum
- Faaborg Museum - own website
- Information on Johannes Larsen in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Today it is part of the Johannes Larsen Museum. In the background you can see the Svanemøllen windmill, which provided Larsen's family with a small income until Larsen's death in 1964.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larsen, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish painter of naturalism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kerteminde |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1961 |