Nils Bergslien
Nils Nilsen Bergslien (born February 26, 1853 in Voss , Norway ; † February 17, 1928 in Eidfjord , Norway) was a Norwegian genre , history and portrait painter , draftsman and sculptor . His work is assigned to the Norwegian national romanticism.
Life
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Bergslien, son of Nils Larsen Bergslien and Sigvor Nilsdatter, initially painted as an autodidact . When his uncle, the genre and history painter Knud Bergslien , returned to Christiania after many years from Düsseldorf, where he had absorbed influences from the Düsseldorf School of Painting , he moved in with him at the end of 1869. In Christiania he attended the Royal Art and Trade School. In 1871/1872 he also went to the private painting school that his uncle Knud and Morten Müller had taken over from Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in 1870 . In 1873 he accompanied his uncle Knud on a trip to Germany and Austria. By means of a scholarship, he went on a study trip to Telemark with Gerhard Munthe in 1874 or 1875 . This trip gave him lasting impressions of the culture and beauty of the Norwegian mountain landscape and inspired him to take pictures with pixies that later made him known. On December 18, 1874, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There he studied under the painter Otto Seitz . In 1879 he returned to Norway and lived alternately in Christiana, Voss, Bergen (1882-1884) and Jæderen (1884-1886), from 1887 alternately on his farm in Eidfjord, where he died at the age of 74, and in Bergen. In 1880 he went on a hike to the Hardangervidda plateau with Axel Ender and Holger Drachmann .
Bergslien preferred the national romantic depiction of motifs from Norwegian history and folklore as well as Norwegian fairy tales. His gnomes (Norwegian nisser ), which were spread on postcards and other prints, made him particularly popular . At the beginning of the 1920s he created a bronze relief that was erected in 1921 in memory of the Norwegian fiddler and composer Ola Mosafinn (1828–1912) in Voss (Vossewangen). In 1928, the year Berglien died, the municipality of Voss had the Bergslien Monument built in honor of his uncles Brynjulf and Knud and in his honor . It shows medallion portraits of the three honorees designed by Nils Bergslien.
literature
- Carl Wille Schnitler : Bergslien, Nils Nilsen . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 415 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bergslien, Nils Nilsen . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . KG Saur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , Volume 9, p. 426.
Web links
- Nils Nilsen Bergslien , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 03109 Nils Bergslien , registration of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
- ↑ Nils Bergslien , biography on prabook.com , accessed on January 6, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergslien, Nils |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergslien, Nils Nilsen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian genre, history and portrait painter, draftsman and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voss , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1928 |
| Place of death | Eidfjord , Norway |