Rudolph Tegner

Rudolph Tegner (born July 12, 1873 in Copenhagen ; † June 5, 1950 ) was a Danish sculptor of symbolism .

Tegner Museum at Dronningmølle with one of the outside statues in the park

Tegner was the son of the prime lieutenant, bank director and junker Jørgen Henry August Tegner and Signe Elisabeth Puggaard. Early influences were ancient sculptures, which he saw on his trip to Greece (Acropolis) when he was 15, a stay in Italy, where he was impressed by Michelangelo's sculptures “Day and Night” and “Morning and Evening”, and a stay in Paris (1893 to 1897) where he was influenced by Art Nouveau and Auguste Rodin . From 1890 to 1893 he worked with the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland . His first larger work "A Faun" from 1891 was placed in Charlottenborg Palace .

In 1916 he built a house in the north of Zealand in Dronningmølle, in the middle of the heathland ("Russia") near Hornbæk , which is now his mausoleum and museum (Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark), set up by Tegner himself in 1938 as a museum with a sculpture park. His monumental sculptures (in plaster and bronze), which often dealt with themes from Greek mythology, are also exhibited there. Among other things, it was controversial because of the erotic charisma of some of his sculptures, which were then perceived as provocative.

Tegner was married to the painter Elna Jørgensen (1889–1976) since 1911.

Tegner Museum, inside

In Helsingor is Danserindebrønden (dancers wells) and a Hydra-group (Hydra with Hercules) of it. A group of statues "Mod Lyset" erected in 1909 in honor of Niels Finsen , Nobel Prize in Medicine, is in Copenhagen (corner of Blegdamsvej / Tangensvej at the Reich Hospital). It shows a standing man flanked by two kneeling women, his face stretched towards the sky in a kind of praying posture, and was controversial at the time; the work of Nietzsche should, as with other of his works to the design have influenced. His Copenhagen sculpture was defended by the leading Danish intellectual and Nietzsche admirer Georg Brandes - Brandes himself portrayed Tegner in a sculpture Lucifer with the head of Brandes in 1902.

literature

“Mod Lyset” (To the Light), autobiography, Copenhagen 1991
Teresa Nielsen "The Titan of the North", FMR, No. 50, 1994
Anne Hald: Rudolph Tegner the sculptor, Tegner's Museum 1999
Anne Hald: Rudolph Tegners udvikling som billedhugger, Tegner's Museum 1998
Anne Hald: Erotikken hos Rudolph Tegner, Tegner's Museum 1999
Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, Myten Rudolph Tegner's skitser and painter, Rudolph Tegner's Museum 2003
Bjørn Nørgaard, Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark: en debatbog, Rudolph Tegners Museum 1987
Teresa Nielsen: De frie billedhuggere, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Vejen 1996
Teresa Nielsen: Rudolph Tegners Danserindebrønd, exhibition catalog, Tegners Museum 1993
Henrik Wivel: Ny dansk kunsthistorie 5. Symbolisme og impressionisme, Copenhagen, Fogtdal 1994.

In 2003, Lars Brydesen and Søren Schandorf made a Danish film about Tegner.

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Remarks

↑ Finsen - himself forced into a wheelchair by an illness - received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the healing power of light. B. in child pox and tuberculosis. He died in 1904 at the age of 44.

personal data
SURNAME	Tegner, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	June 5th 1950

[1] Finsen - himself forced into a wheelchair by an illness - received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the healing power of light. B. in child pox and tuberculosis. He died in 1904 at the age of 44.