Vilhelm Melbye

Vilhelm Melbye (around 1870)

Vilhelm Melbye (born May 14, 1824 in Helsingør ; died October 6, 1882 in Roskilde ) was a Danish painter.

Life

Knud Frederik Vilhelm Hannibal Melbye was a brother of Anton Melbye (1818–1875) and Fritz Melbye (1826–1869), who were also painters. Melbye received his painting training from 1844 to 1847 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art , with Carl Dahl and his brother Anton. In 1847 he exhibited a picture of a pilot boat in rough weather in Charlottenborg Palace . In 1847 he traveled to Iceland . From 1848 to 1849 he lived in Düsseldorf to study at the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1849 he stayed in Paris, where he also worked in Théodore Gudin's studio . Between 1851 and 1866 he lived mainly in London . He traveled to Portugal , Spain and Morocco . Back in Copenhagen he married the pianist Nanny Matthison-Hansen (1830–1915), daughter of the organist Hans Matthison-Hansen . From 1871 he taught at the Copenhagen Academy and was appointed professor there in 1880. He was buried in the assistance cemetery.

Gibraltar (1880)
Hardanger waterfall (1863)

Square sailboat on the high seas (1852)

literature

H. Repetzky: Melbye, Vilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 89, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023255-4 , p. 11 f.
Ingeborg Buhl : Melbye, Vilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 354 .
Ph. Weilbach: Melbye, Knud Frederik Vilhelm Hannibal . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 241-243 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Vilhelm Melbye - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Vilhelm Melbye in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Homepage about the Melbye family of artists

Individual evidence

^ Ingeborg Buhl : Melbye, Vilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 354 .
↑ 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. 435
^ Nanny Matthison-Hansen, DNB 137694806

personal data
SURNAME	Melbye, Vilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Melbye, Knud Frederik Vilhelm Hannibal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elsinore
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1882
Place of death	Roskilde

[ThB24-1] Ingeborg Buhl : Melbye, Vilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 354 .

[2] 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. 435

[3] Nanny Matthison-Hansen, DNB 137694806