Olaf Isaachsen

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Olaf Isaachsen , self-portrait

Olaf (Ole) Wilhelm Isaachsen (born May 16, 1835 in Mandal , Norway ; † September 22, 1893 in Kjos in Oddernes, today Kristiansand , Norway) was a Norwegian painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Isaachsen came from a wealthy and educated merchant family from Kjos, today Kristiansand, southern Norway. His parents were the lawyer Daniel Peter Christian Isaachsen (1811–1882) and his wife Cecilie Marie, née Wattne (1811–1895). His grandfather was the Norwegian politician and Storting MP Isaach Isaachsen (1774-1828). He received his first drawing lessons from his cousin, the painter Hedevig Erichsen Lund (1824–1888) and wife of the painter Bernt Lund (1812–1885). Under the teachers Joachim Frich and Johannes Flintoe he received further instruction in painting from 1850 on at the Royal Drawing School in Christiania . In 1852 he began studying at a military academy, which he ended early in 1854 due to illness. From 1854 to 1858 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the professors Josef Wintergerst , Karl Müller and Christian Köhler . He also received private lessons there from his compatriot Adolph Tidemand , who lived in Düsseldorf , who made him familiar with the subjects of Norwegian national romanticism. It is questionable whether Isaachsen also took lessons from Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Hildebrandt in 1858/1859 . A close friendship seems to have linked him to Peter Nicolai Arbo . From 1857 to 1860 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In February 1859, accompanied by his Finnish friend August von Becker, he traveled to Paris to study for a year with Thomas Couture , whose nude studies he had met through August Jernberg . Couture and Gustave Courbet , in whose studio he worked from December 1860 to spring 1861, had a strong influence on Isaachsen, which was expressed in particular in a pronounced colorism as well as in a turn to realism and naturalism . On August 23, 1864 Isaachsen married Antonie (Toni) Johanne Prehr (1838–1870), the daughter of the veterinarian Wilhelm Heinrich Prehr and his wife Jeanette, nee Walther. Antonie gave birth to four children and died of tuberculosis in 1870. Two years later, his four-year-old daughter Johanna Marie died of diphtheria, so that he was left with three young sons. Isaachsen went on a number of study trips within Norway and Germany as well as to Belgium (1857), France (1861, 1867), Italy (1863) and Great Britain (1859, 1862). In 1867 and 1874 he stayed in Paris again for a longer period. In 1864, 1867 and 1872 to 1875 he lived and worked in Düsseldorf.

Work (selection)

Setesdalsinteriør , 1869
  • En sjørøver , 1858
  • Seks Akter from Paris , 1859
  • Landskap fra Apeninnene , 1863
  • Setesdalsstue, Kveste i Valle , 1866
  • Slagsmål i en bondestue , 1866
  • Study av en såret mann , 1866
  • Liggende setesdøl , 1866
  • Ung setesdøl , 1866
  • Slagsbror , 1867
  • Setesdalsinteriør , 1869
  • Et litterært funn , 1870/1871
  • Bruden pyntes , 1878
  • Setesdalsloft , 1878
  • Stabbursinteriør from Ose i Setesdal , 1878
  • Stuen i Holskogen , ca.1880
  • Syrinbusk i morgensol , 1881
  • Tore Hund ved Olav den helliges lik , 1881
  • Venemyr i Søgne Sogn Høststemning , 1885
  • Efter bathes , 1889
  • Kristiansand Etter Brannen , 1892
  • Tre brannbilder fra Kristiansand , 1892

literature

  • Isaachsen, Olaf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 229 .
  • Sigurd Willoch: Olaf Isaachsen , Aschehoug 1926
  • Sigurd Willoch: Olaf Isaachsen . In: Norske mesterverker i Nasjonalgalleriet Oslo , Oslo 1981, pp. 52–54
  • Gunvald Opstad: Olaf Isaachsen . Aschehoug 1993
  • Tone Klev Furnes: Èn by - fem kunstnere , Vigmostad & Bjørke AS 2005
  • Tone Klev Furnes: Olaf Isaachsen , Vigmostad & Bjørke AS 2009

Web links

Commons : Olaf Isaachsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 433
  2. ^ Wend von Kalnein : The influence of Düsseldorf on painting outside Germany . In: Wend von Kalnein (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 200
personal data
SURNAME Isaachsen, Olaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isaachsen, Olaf Wilhelm (full name); Isaachsen, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Mandal , Norway
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1893
Place of death Kjos, Oddernes today Kristiansand