Ole Juul

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Ole Juul (born August 5, 1852 in Dypfjord near Henningsvær , Vågan , Lofoten ; † September 30, 1927 ) was a Norwegian landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School and a photographer .

Life

Juul was born as the son of the farmer and fisherman Knut Lorents Juul (1813–1868) and his wife Gjertrud Bolette Dreyer (1817–1876) in Dypford, not far from the fishing village of Henningsvær, in the Lofoten Islands. The couple had eight children. Juul's cousin, the son of Aunt Sophie on his mother's side, was the painter Adelsteen Normann , who studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1869 , married Catharine Hubertine Weitgan (1845–1911) from the Rhineland in 1870 and moved to Düsseldorf with her from 1873 . Normann acquired a house with a garden at Sternstrasse 40 in the Pempelfort district . After Juul had taken private lessons from the painter Anders Askevold in Bergen in 1873/1874 and trained as a photographer, he also went to Düsseldorf in 1876, where his cousin helped him to apply for art studies at the Royal Prussian Art Academy.

On July 9, 1877, he enrolled there as a student after he had submitted samples of his painting and drawing skills. Heinrich Lauenstein , Andreas Müller , Peter Janssen the Elder were at the Düsseldorf Academy . Ä. , Karl Müller and especially Eugen Dücker his teachers. Juul stayed in the latter's landscape class from 1877 to 1883. With Dücker he went on study trips to Germany. Juul stayed for some time in Berlin and other German cities. He is said to have made further trips to the Netherlands, Denmark, England and the United States. According to biographical notes from his brother Bernhard, Juul is said to have married in Düsseldorf.

After his studies, Juul returned to Norway. There he lived in Kristiansund , his father's hometown, until the end of 1884 . Since he could barely make a living from selling his pictures, he worked as a photographer. Then he moved to Lesja , Oppland , where he moved in a circle of painters living there. In 1890 Juul moved to Elverum , Hedmark . He established his own photographer and painter's studio, which mainly received orders from recruits stationed in Elverum who wanted to be photographed in uniform. Juul's sister Christine Caroline, who married the farmer Brede O. Svenneby in 1883, lived nearby. In the 1890s he lived for a while with the photographer Jacob Kirkhorn in Molde , who, like him, had trained as a photographer in Bergen. In 1910 Juul was registered with a widow in Romedal at Stange . Then he lived in Trondheim for a couple of winters before moving to Ørland , Sør-Trøndelag . Juul's most important sales channel seems to have been the Trondheim Art Association. Sales of his paintings can be ascertained there until 1898. In Ørland, which he had known since a stay in 1903, he initially stayed with a family before he decided in 1915 at the age of 63 to build his own house there based on his own design. He is said to have inherited the money from a wealthy lady in Düsseldorf.

Juul had already been forgotten as a painter when he had his big breakthrough in 1922 at the age of 70 with an exhibition at the Blomqvist Gallery in Kristiania . There pictures from Juul's student days, which had been kept for a long time in a Düsseldorf depot, came into the art trade. The Aftenposten and other newspapers reported on him several times. When he died it turned out that Juul, who had last lived with his sister Amalie in Svolvær in Lofoten and was buried in Kabelvåg's cemetery, had died wealthy. A net amount of NOK 2.7 million was distributed among his heirs.

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Kvinne på landevei (Woman on a Village Path)

Juul was an outdoor painter . He painted many pictures, often impressionistic sketches, in order to capture personal moods in nature that were characterized by loneliness, often landscapes in evening or morning light. The way of painting, choice of motif and composition, but also the consciously chosen studio tone that becomes visible in them, show the influence of the Dücker School of Düsseldorf landscape painting. The National Museum in Oslo has three paintings by him, the Northern Norwegian Art Museum in Tromsø has four. The Trondheim Art Museum has a larger collection of his works. When Juul died, around 3,000 pictures were sold through auctions in Kristiania, Trondheim and Ørland.

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Web links

Commons : Ole Juul  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ole Juul (1852–1927) , genealogical data sheet in the portal vestraat.net (Erik Berntsens Slektssider), accessed on June 6, 2016
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Juul, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Dypfjord near Henningsvær , Vågan , Nordland
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1927