Thorolf Holmboe

Thorolf Holmboe (1934)

Thorolf Holmboe (born May 10, 1866 in Vefsn , † March 7, 1935 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian landscape and marine painter and craftsman .

life and work

Holmboe was a master student of Hans Fredrik Gude in Berlin in 1886/1887 . He then worked for the sculptor Middelthun at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Kristiania . In the years 1889/1890 he studied with Cormon in Paris . In 1887 he made his debut at the annual exhibition in Kristiania with Nordlands landscapes. Holmboe left naturalism around 1890 and joined the decorative-stylizing art direction. This neo-romantic trend determined his work as a painter and craftsman. In the years 1891 and 1893 Holmboe was a state scholarship holder in Italy . He then went on trips to Berlin, Copenhagen , Paris and Stockholm . In 1908 he was in Svalbard . In 1909 he decorated the Norwegian section of the international hunting exhibition in Vienna . Around 1915, Holmboe turned to Impressionism . In 1919 he went to New York City . In 1920 Holmboe was on the French Riviera . In 1922 he was on Rügen .

Picture gallery

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  Frognerkilen

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  Nordlandsjekt I Midnattssol

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  Alstahaug

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  Fra skjærgåden utenfor Fredrikstad. Søndre Søsterøy ved Hvaler.

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  Midnattsolens Land

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  Amtmandens Døtre

literature

• Jens Thiis: Norske malere og billedhuggere: en Fremdstilling af norsk billedkunsts historie in the nittende århundrede med oversierter over velvet foreign med art . tape 2 : Fransk malerkunst, norske kunstforhold, norsk malerkunst i de sidste 25 år . John Grieg, Bergen 1904, p. 367–372 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• A. Aubert: Norwegian painting in the 19th century. 1910, pp. 35, 78, 83, 89.
• Georg Nordensvan : Holmboe [-bω], Thorolf . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Harrisburg – Hypereides . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 1000 (Swedish, runeberg.org - different place of birth: Born 1866 in Helgeland in Northern Norway).
• CW Schnitler: Holmboe, Thorolf . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Hasselmus – Hven . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1921, p. 653 (Danish, runeberg.org - different place of birth: Born on May 10, 1866 in Helgeland, Nordland).
• Holmboe, Thorolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 392 .
• Andreas Beyer (Ed.): General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 74: Hoelscher – Hornstein. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 295 f.

• Øivind Storm Bjerke: Thorolf Holmboe . In: Norsk kunstnerleksikon . tape 2 : H-M . Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1983 ( snl.no - status of the online edition, February 20, 2017).

Web links

Commons : Thorolf Holmboe  - collection of images, videos and audio files