Julia Beck

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Julia Beck, portrayed in 1882 by her fellow artist Richard Bergh

Augusta Lovisa Julia Beck (born December 20, 1853 in Stockholm , Sweden , † September 21, 1935 in Vaucresson , France ) was a Swedish painter with German ancestors who settled in France. In 1934 she was made a member of the French Legion of Honor in recognition of her life's work .

Life

Julia Beck was the daughter of the originally from Rheinhessen originating bookbinder Franz Beck (born March 22, 1814 Gau-Bickelheim 15, † May 1888 in Stockholm), son of the Hessian politician Dominique Beck . In 1840, at the age of 26, Franz Beck had emigrated to Sweden and settled in Stockholm as a master bookbinder. His marriage to the Swede Julia Carlotta Carlsson in 1851 resulted in the children Johan Viktor Beck (* 1852) and Julia Beck (* 1853).

While her brother also became a bookbinder and entered the father's business, Julia Beck studied painting from 1872 to 1878 at the Art Academy in Stockholm. There she and a group of female students published a magazine entitled “Palettskrap” (German roughly: “Palettengekratze”). During her time at the art academy, Julia Beck was close friends with the artists Eva Bonnier , Jenny Nyström and Karin Begöö , the later wife of Carl Larsson .

At the beginning of the 1880s, Julia Beck continued her studies in Paris at the prestigious private art academy Julian , with Léon Bonnat , Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alfred Stevens . She later spent a few years in the town of Grez-sur-Loing , south of Paris , where she found many of her acquaintances and friends from her student days in the small Swedish artist colony that existed there . Julia Beck then bought her own house in Vaucresson, west of Paris; she lived and worked there until her death in 1935. Julia Beck remained single for life. She was one of the few artists of her time who could earn a living with her art alone.

In 1934, a year before her death, Julia Beck was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor in recognition of her life's work. After the author Anna Branting, she was the second Swedish woman to be honored with this highest award in France.

Julia Beck is listed in the Swedish encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok . In 2012 the Swedish author Kaa Wennberg published the first biography of Julia Beck; the book has so far only been published in Swedish .

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Julia Beck mainly painted portraits and atmospheric landscapes in calm, delicate colors of nature. In Paris she already attracted attention in 1880 with a self-portrait at the salon . Julia Beck found the motifs for her landscape paintings on her travels through France and Belgium , but also in Sweden, where she had maintained contacts throughout her life. She regularly participated in the great Paris salons. One of her largest solo exhibitions with 65 pictures took place in Vaucresson in 1925.

In Sweden, Julia Beck's works can now be found in the art museum in Norrköping , the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg and the National Museum in Stockholm, where you can also see her portrait by Richard Bergh .

Honors

  • 1934 member of the Legion of Honor, France

Exhibitions during his lifetime (selection)

  • 1880 Salon, Grand Palais , Paris
  • 1893 Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs. Palais de l'Industrie, Paris
  • 1905 Salon, Grand Palais, Paris
  • 1925 Vaucresson

Posthumous exhibitions

  • 2012 Zorn Museum , Mora , Sweden
  • 2013 Sven-Harrys Art Museum , Stockholm, Sweden

Gallery (selection)

  • Water lilies

  • Portrait of a woman

  • French landscape (1885)

  • Woman getting dressed on a stool

  • Gréz from Nemours (1885)

  • Boy with tambourine

  • River landscape with water lilies

literature

Web links

Commons : Julia Beck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Beck, Julia: Julia Beck . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 282 .
  2. ↑ Franz, Johan Viktor and Julia Beck . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 64 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ^ Artist portrait of Julia Beck. In: wahlunds.com. Kunstgalerie Wahlund, accessed December 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Nationalencyklopedin, CD-utgåvan, 2000. Swedish National Encyclopedia, CD-ROM edition, 2000 (Swedish).
  5. ^ A b Exhibition Julia Beck in the Sven Harrys Art Museum. In: sven-harrys.de. Sven-Harrys konstmuseum, May 24, 2013, archived from the original on December 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ Julia Beck. In: La Lorraine-Artiste. March 19, 1893, Newspaper Reader Kiosque Lorrain, p. 1. In: kiosque-lorrain.fr, accessed December 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Julia Lovisa (full name); Beck, Julia Louisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1935
Place of death Vaucresson , France