Niels Wiwel

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Niels Wiwel (born March 7, 1855 in Store Lyndby near Hillerød , Zealand , Denmark ; † December 14, 1914 in Hellerup near Copenhagen ) was a Danish landscape , genre and portrait painter as well as draftsman , caricaturist and illustrator .

Life

Wiwel grew up as the son of the teacher and author Niels Peter Wiwel (1818–1874) and his cousin and wife Ingeborg Jørgine Frederikke Middelthun (1822–1856) in an educated middle class. The later linguist and school teacher Hylling Georg Wiwel (1851-1910) was his older brother. Zeeland folk tales and adventure stories that his father collected stimulated his imagination early on.

After school, an apprenticeship with the lithographer Harald Jensen and an apprenticeship at the drawing school of Christian Vilhelm Nielsen (1833-1912), he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen from 1869 to 1873 . He then stayed in Germany and Austria until 1879 , especially in Düsseldorf , where he was inspired by the Düsseldorf School of Painting , and in Munich , where he was a student of Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger in the late 1870s . In the years 1879/1880 he stayed in Paris and became a student of Léon Bonnat .

Moonlight near Kalø , 1897

Then he lived again in Denmark. He was best known there as a genre painter with a pronounced anecdotal composition and as a draftsman and caricaturist for illustrated weeklies. In the 1890s he also emerged as a book illustrator. From 1898 to 1904 he worked in Helsinki and worked for the Tilgmannske Reproduction Institute.

Wiwel married the teacher's daughter Anna Henriette Jespersen (1862–1926) on November 5, 1884, after the separation in her second marriage on November 23, 1888, the forester's daughter Christiane Johanne Cathrine Gibskov (December 9, 1862 - February 15, 1945). The couple had seven children. The Danish art collector Wilhelm Hansen wrote about it:

“Despite their poverty, he and his wife look as happy as I've never seen them before. They are satisfied if they can somehow get by. It is good to meet people like that, and I am happy to meet them. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Niels Wiwel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ V. Dahlerup: Wiwel, Hylling Georg . In: Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen, Palle Raunkjær (ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 25 : Werth – Øyslebø . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1928, p. 309 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Paul Diderichsen: HG Wiwel, Hylling Georg Wiwel . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 15 : Treschow – Wold . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1984, ISBN 87-01-77513-8 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).
  3. ^ CE Jensen, Eduard Fuchs : Caricature Album. Den evropæiske caricature art fra de ældste Tider indtil vore Dage. Væsentligst paa Grundlag af Eduard Fuchs: The caricature. Volume II: The Modern Cartoon. A. Chrustuabsebs Forlag, Copenhagen 1912, p. 457.
  4. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).
  5. ↑ 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. 443.
  6. ^ Mogens Rafn Mogensen: Carl Nielsen. The Danish composer. Volume 1: Youth until 1900. Eurotext publishing house, Arbon am Bodensee 1992, ISBN 978-3-9520232-7-3 , p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Wiwel, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish landscape, genre and portrait painter, draftsman, caricaturist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Store Lyndby near Hillerød , Zealand , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1914
Place of death Hellerup near Copenhagen