Knud Jacobsen (painter)

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Knud Jacobsen (born February 5, 1928 in Algiers ; † July 9, 2019 ) was a Danish - Swiss painter, graphic artist , draftsman, wood cutter and sculptor . He also appeared with art in architecture and with reliefs.

Life

Knud's father Christian Jacobsen was a Dane . Knud spent the first five years of his life in Montreal . His mother Mathilde, née Lehmann, was from Thun and moved to Thun with Knud in 1933 . Fritz Bütikofer Knuds was a teacher at school in Thun. During his ceramics apprenticeship from 1944 he went to school with the glass painter Robert Schär . In 1947 he took him to Max von Mühlenen's painting school in the Kornhaus in Bern . After two semesters, he moved to the arts and crafts school in Bern in the graphics class of Eugen Jordi.

From 1949 Knud Jacobsen had his own atelier in the attic of the “Thunerhof” in Thun, which today houses the Thun Art Museum . In 1954 he moved into a new studio in the Künstlerhaus at Freienhofgasse 7 in Thun. Etienne Clare and Paul Gmünder were also there . This is how the Thun artist group came into being, to which Roman Tschabold and Hans Ittig also belonged. Together with the gilder Emil von Gunten, they founded the gallery on Aarequai in Thun in 1958. The group also had regular contact with Cuno Amiet in Oschwand . The meetings with Emil von Gunten and Etienne Clare turned into a solid friendship.

In 1954 Knud Jacobsen was able to take part in the Christmas exhibition in the “Thunerhof” for the first time. He then exhibited at almost every one of these exhibitions for over 20 years. The first nationally significant exhibition was the IX in 1958. Swiss Exhibition of Alpine Art of the GSMBA in St. Gallen . The jury selected four of his paintings. In 1961 there was an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Braunschweig , after which there were exhibitions in Stuttgart , Wolfsburg and southern France. An exhibition with Fred Stauffer in Lenk is also documented.

In 1979 he made six large woodcuts with views of the city of Thun on behalf of the bookseller Markus Krebser. The cutting and printing was staged in Thun in a public square. Knud Jacobsen is represented with eight works in the public space of the city of Thun. In 2003 he had a solo exhibition in the "Galerie Rosengarten" in Thun. In the following years this gallery became his permanent exhibition space. In 2010 he designed a poster for BLS Schifffahrt and the Niesenbahn with the motif of the steamship Blümlisalp with Niesen . In 2012 Knud Jacobsen received the Great Culture Prize of the City of Thun for his life's work. In 2014 his works were shown in the art collection Hans & Marlis Suter in Steffisburg together with Etienne Clare and Werner Engel. In 2018, on the occasion of the exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Kunstmuseum Thun, a monograph on Knud Jacobsen by Thomas Seilnacht was published.

Jacobsen died on July 9, 2019 at the age of 91.

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Knud Jacobsen's work is distinguished by its diversity: In addition to graphic works such as commercial graphics, drawings, lithographs and woodcuts, paintings and works in public spaces are particularly important. In 1973 he and Etienne Clare created a mural for the Kursaal in Thun that shows jugglers, dancers and musicians. The metal relief Apokalyptische Reiter (1968) can be seen on the fountain of the Johanneskirche in Thun. Public works also include the relief on the Sonnmatt retirement and nursing home or the glass windows in the crematorium at Thun's city cemetery. In the woodcuts, the six large woodcuts with views of the city of Thun are important. They were printed in an edition of only ten copies. One series each is available in the Hans & Marlis Suter art collection and in the Thun Art Museum .

The first abstract paintings were created around 1950. Examples are the works Harvest (1958) or Mondnacht (1963), both of which are in the Kunstmuseum Thun. Later the representations became more representational again.

In 1990 a phase began in his late work in which Knud Jacobsen's painting became more and more colorful. This process came to an end in 2003. In spite of the objectivity, Jacobsen always kept to the maxim of Henri Matisse: “The plenary painters around Matisse were able to ignore the attention to detail in nature. They are on the lookout themselves, they marvel at nature, but never become slaves of it »(Knud Jacobsen). He also liked to quote his teacher Max von Mühlenen : "Why can't you paint the water red and the ship blue?" His watercolors «play with the expressiveness of strong colors. There are street cafés in Saint-Rémy, atmospheric pictures at the port of Sète or southern landscapes. Luminous parasols and colored people create a colorful quality contrast to the gray in the sky or the gray-ocher of the house walls. Colored areas form stabilizing boundaries. The shadows are colored, not dark. " Examples of this are the watercolors Before the Café MIDI (1994) or Markt in der Provence (1991). A central motif is the Thun Castle above the Aarequai. It was realized in several large oil and acrylic paintings. Aarequai (2008), which was exhibited in the Rosengarten Gallery in 2008, is a significant version . The painting is the cover of Seilnacht's monograph on Knud Jacobsen, and it was shown at the Kunstmuseum Thun on the occasion of the 2018 book launch. Recurring motifs are the Niesen , the Emmental or the garden in the Saint-Rémy mental hospital, where Vincent van Gogh once lived.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954: 1st participation in the Christmas exhibition in Thunerhof, today Kunstmuseum Thun (also: 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975)
  • 1958: 1st exhibition in the Aarequai Gallery, Thun (with the founding members)
  • 1958: IX. Swiss Exhibition of Alpine Art, Society of Swiss Painters and Architects (GSMBA), St. Gallen
  • 1961: Städtisches Museum Braunschweig , artist from Thun , Braunschweig
  • 1964: Thun art in the 20th century, Thunerhof Art Collection, Thun
  • 1965: Galerie Aarequai, Thun (also 1970, 1976 and 1978, 1981)
  • 1974: Art collection of the city of Thun (with Mariann Grunder and Gottfried Tritten)
  • 1976: Antoinette Bally-Rothlin Gallery, Kirchdorf BE (with Fritz Gottardi, Peter Willen and others)
  • 1978: Peintres et sculpteurs de l'Oberland bernois , Manoir, Martigny (group)
  • 1983: Drawings and graphics of the 20th century , graphic cabinet of the Thun Art Collection, Schadau Castle, Thun
  • 1999: Hondrich
  • 2003: First solo exhibition in the Rosengarten Gallery, Thun (also in 2008, 2011, 2014)
  • 2013: Galerie Rosengarten, Thun (with Arthur Loosli and Gottfried Keller)
  • 2014: Hans & Marlis Suter art collection , Steffisburg (with Etienne Clare and Werner Engel)
  • 2016: Galerie Rosengarten, 70 years of artistic creativity by Knud Jacobsen
  • 2017: Telling pictures , Kunstmuseum Thun , pictures with works from the collection
  • 2018: Kunstmuseum Thun , We are celebrating 70 years, with old and new acquaintances from the collection (Jacobsen's large painting Lonely Boy in Montreal from 1972 was shown there for the first time )
  • 2018: Gallery Rosengarten, Thun

literature

  • Steffan Biffiger : Roman Tschabold, 1900–1990: Life and Work. Benteli Verlag, Wabern / Bern 2000, ISBN 978-3-71651235-7 .
  • Art Commission of the City of Thun (ed.): Thun art in the 20th century. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition in 1964.
  • Thomas Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen - monograph. With a foreword by Hans Suter. Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-95228926-6 .
  • Franziska Streun and Jon Keller: Thun, a reading book. Zytglogge Verlag, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-72960884-9 .
  • Hans Suter: Knud Jacobsen's unbroken creative power. In: Thunersee Liebi. 1/2014, p. 64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sikart article on Knud Jacobsen , accessed in November 2017.
  2. ↑ Thomas Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen - monograph. Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-9522892-6-6 .
  3. ^ Art Museum Thun (ed.): Exhibition brochures and catalogs. Thun 1955 to 2017.
  4. ↑ Werner Weiskönig, Kurt Zürcher (ed. GSMBA): IX. Swiss Exhibition of Alpine Art, St. Gallen, May 17–15. June 1958. Exhibition catalog.
  5. ^ City Museum Braunschweig : Artists from Thun. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition from April 9th ​​to May 7th, 1961.
  6. ↑ a b Hans Suter: Knud Jacobsen's unbroken creative power. In: Thunersee Liebi. 1/2014, p. 64.
  7. ^ Marianne Flubacher: Knud Jacobsen: "The first impression of nature is important for me". In: do! das magazin, November 2012, p. 28.
  8. ↑ Thomas Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen - monograph. With a foreword by Hans Suter. Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-95228926-6 .
  9. ↑ Program flyer of the Kunstmuseum Thun: We are celebrating 70 years, August 18, 2018 - November 18, 2018, with old and new acquaintances from the collection.
  10. ↑ Berner Zeitung: Thun painter Knud Jacobsen died , accessed on July 13, 2019
  11. ^ Art Commission of the City of Thun (ed.): Thuner Art in the 20th Century. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition in 1964.
  12. ^ Quote in Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen. P. 54.
  13. ↑ Quotes and descriptions of pictures in Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen. 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobsen, Knud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Swiss painter, graphic artist, draftsman, wood cutter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2019