Oscar Herschend
Oscar Herschend (born January 6, 1853 in Herschendsgave near Skanderborg , † February 26, 1891 ibid) was a Danish painter.
Life
From 1870 Herschend studied architecture at the Academy in Copenhagen, but increasingly turned to landscape and marine painting. From 1880 he took part in exhibitions at Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen and mainly showed motifs from the north Jutland dune landscape. He is one of the important precursors of the Skagen School of Painting .
literature
- Ruling, Oscar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 549 .
- Elisabeth Fabritius : The Denmark of the artist colonies. Faaborg Museum Faaborg DK 2006, p. 18.
- Gerd Mettjes (Ed.): From Copenhagen to Skagen. Danish painting 1830–1910. Schwedenspeicher Museum Stade 1907, p. 70.
- Lisette Vind Ebbesen, Dorthe Rosenfeldt Sieben (Red.): Catalog of painters. Catalog over Skagens Museum painter. Skagens Museum, 2012, p. 120.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruling, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herschendsgave near Skanderborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1891 |
| Place of death | Herschendsgave near Skanderborg |