Nel Greenland

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Nel Grönland , also Nelius Grönland (born April 4, 1859 in Barbizon near Paris , † 1918 ), was a German portrait and still life painter .

Life

Greenland was born as the son of the German-Danish still life and decoration painter Theude Grönland and his wife Simone Olympe, née Maréschal, in the artists' colony of Barbizon . Like his older brother René , he received paternal lessons. After the family had moved to Berlin in 1868/1869 , he went to the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts , where Michael and Julius Schrader were his teachers. In the years between 1890 and 1910 Greenland stayed in the Netherlands several times .

Works (selection)

Pheasants, onions and prawns in front of a staircase , 1908
  • Warnemünde , 1898
  • Grapes, peaches, pineapples and champagne , 1899
  • Pineapple, watermelon, peaches and grapes in a basket , 1903
  • Pheasants, onions and prawns in front of a staircase , 1908

literature

  • Greenland, Nel. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 414 ( archive.org ).
  • Greenland, Nelius . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 116 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).

Web links

Commons : Nel Greenland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greenland, Theude . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 70 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - mentioned in the father's article).
personal data
SURNAME Greenland, Nel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenland, Nelius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Barbizon near Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1918