August Plum
Poul August Plum (born May 13, 1815 in Copenhagen , † July 27, 1876 in Fredensborg on Zealand ) was a Danish genre painter .
Life
Plum, son of the captain and customs officer Hans Jacob Plum (1783–1835) and his wife Petra Magdalene, née Halse (1786–1864), attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 1831 to 1838 . There he was a student of Johann Ludwig Lund . From 1839 to 1841 he stayed in North America . From 1845 to 1847 he took part in a circumnavigation on the Danish corvette Galathea . In doing so, he created drawings and studies that are considered to be one of the few Danish examples of orientalism of the time. On the island of Hawaii he painted portraits of King Kamehameha III in October 1846 . and his wife Kalama. Between 1850 and 1853 he stayed in Düsseldorf , also in Belgium and Paris . In 1857 he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1858 he married Mariane Laurentze Hasse (1812–1872), and in 1873 Emilie Hoppe (1836–1916).
literature
- Plum, Poul August . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 13 : Pelli – Reravius . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1899, p. 184-185 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Plum, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 161 .
- Peter Nørgaard Larsen: August Plum . In: Weilbach's artist dictionary
Web links
- August Plum . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- August Plum . Data sheet / biography in the portal kulturarv.dk
- Poul August Plum . genealogical data sheet in the portal finnholbek.dk
- August Plum . Auction results in the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ 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. 437
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plum, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plum, Poul August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1876 |
| Place of death | Fredensborg on Zealand |