Theodor Ohlsen

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Theodor Ohlsen (* 1855 in Klein-Brebel , † 1913 in Wiesbaden ) was a German landscape , marine and portrait painter .

Life

Theodor Ohlsen, son of a tailor, studied in Hamburg , Munich and Berlin , where he was a student of Gyula Benczúr , Ludwig von Löfftz , Karl Gussow and Franz von Defregger , among others . On October 20, 1880 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association .

From 1883 to 1893 he traveled to several continents; whereby Chile particularly fascinated him. He captured the country with its people and ways of life in many travel pictures that were also significant from a cultural and historical point of view. After his return to Hamburg, he exhibited two large-format naval paintings in the Hamburg Art Exhibition and in the Saxon Art Association in 1895 . He later worked in Wiesbaden, where he died in 1913.

Works (selection)

  • View of the Chilean coast near Valparaiso, 1890

  • Steamship 'Kaiser Wilhelm II' on the high seas, 1893

  • Harvest boat on a lake, 1895

  • Courtyard of a palazzo in Venice with two women at the fountain, 1901

  • Girl in a Hat, 1907

His heliogravure Picnic in a Palm Quebrada is in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz .

Publications

  • Through South America. 50 plates in photo engraving on cardboard. Art publishing house Louis Bock & Sohn, Hamburg / Leipzig 1894

Honors

The Ohlsen House, the village community center in Brebel, which was completed in 2001, is named after Theodor Ohlsen, among others.

literature

  • Johannes Hansen: Theodor Ohlsen; 1855-1913. The painter from fishing and his time. Husum Druck, January 2001. ISBN 978-3-89876-026-3
  • Mateo Martinic Beros: Recorriendo Magallanes antiguo con Theodor Ohlsen. Ed. Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile 1975
  • Thieme-Becker, Benezit: Dictionary of Artists
  • Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century
  • Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums: catalog of the works exhibited in the Federal Republic of Germany. ISBN 3-59810-308-5

Web links

Commons : Theodor Ohlsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation books: Defregger, Franz von. In: Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ^ Matriculation book of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 1841-1884, matriculation number 3938. Image of the entry in the matriculation book
  3. ↑ Theodor Ohlsen on arcadja.com
  4. ↑ Picnic in a palm tree Quebrada. Heliogravure d. Artist Theodor Ohlsen, created around 1900.
  5. ^ Office Süderbrarup: The Ohlsen house, meeting point for all Brebelers.
personal data
SURNAME Ohlsen, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, marine and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Brebel
DATE OF DEATH 1913
Place of death Wiesbaden