Sophus Jacobsen

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice , after 1865

Sunset in the forest , after 1878

Sophus Jacobsen (born September 7, 1833 in Fredrikshald ; † May 13, 1912 in Düsseldorf ) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Jacobsen lived in Düsseldorf from 1853, where he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude until 1856 and a member of the artists' association Malkasten from 1856 to 1912 . Various study trips took him to Norway and Italy as well as to different parts of Germany .

Some privately owned works were on view in May 1881 in the permanent exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bremen .

Some works have been auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby’s in recent years and have achieved prices that correspond to the equivalent of five-digit euros: Sunset in the forest in 1994 at Sotheby's, Grande with a view of Santa Maria Maggiore, Venice on October 30, 2002 at Christie's New York USD 31,070, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice on September 13, 2006 at Christie's GBP 12,000.

literature

Sophus Jacobsen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 254 .

Web links

Commons : Sophus Jacobsen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Jacobsen . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 117.

Individual evidence

^ 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. 146.

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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.

↑ Gondolas on the canal

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobsen, Sophus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fredrikshald
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1912
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] 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. 146.

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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] Gondolas on the canal