Marion Lucka, 1963 | Surrealist painter

German painter Marion Lucka was born in Kaiserhammer near Selb.

Since her childhood she wanted to express herself through her painting.

After finishing secondary school in Bayreuth, she began a vocational training to become a litographer in the resident porcelain industry.

Victor Gabriel Gilbert | Genre painter

French painter🎨 Victor Gabriel Gilbert (Paris, 1847 - Paris, 1933) was a genre painter🎨, particularly interested in the portrayal of market scenes and the picturesque details therein.

Gilbert was awarded🎨 the Bonnat prize in 1926.

Gilbert had been elected Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur and died in 1933.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Gilbert see:

• Victor Gilbert | Academic /Genre painter🎨

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Artworks

British Victorian-era artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds in 1836.

His father was a policeman but in 1848 he found work with the Great Northern Railway Company. Grimshaw's parents were strict Baptists and his mother strongly disapproved of his interest in painting and on one occasion she destroyed all his paints.

In 1852 Grimshaw became a clerk at the Great Northern Railway office in Leeds. The city had several art galleries and Grimshaw was able to see the work of Holman Hunt (The Light of the World), Henry Wallis (Death of Chatterton) and William Powell Frith (Derby Day).

Hans Andersen Brendekilde

Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1942) was a Danish painter.

Hans Andersen Brendekilde grew up in Braendekilde, a small village close to Odense on the island of Funen.

He was a distant relation of Hans Christian Andersen, the famous writer of fairytales, and like his relation he had a very poor childhood.

The fathers of both were clog makers.

At the age of 4 Brendekilde left his parents and lived with his grandparents until the age of 10 when he made his living as a shepherd, getting board and lodging.

Gustave Courbet | Life and Artworks

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a small town in the heart of the Franche-Comté. He was the eldest of four children, and the only son. They were a close-knit family and prosperous, thanks to his father's extensive estates.

Courbet showed his affection for his family throughout his life. He left behind many portraits of them, sometimes among the figures in his great compositions.

He had a similar fondness for his native region which he used as a background in a number of his paintings. At various times in his life, Courbet travelled to the north of France where he was well liked. He lived in Paris, visited Saintonge, the birthplace of his friend Castagnary, went to Normandy with the American painter Whistler, and also to Montpellier at the invitation of Bruyas, his friend and patron. But he always returned to the Franche-Comté.

It was with "an unshakeable self-confidence and indomitable tenacity" (Castagnary) that Courbet launched into a prolific artistic career consisting of four key periods.

Danish Artists | Sitemap

Danish Art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. For many early periods, it is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia.

Art from what is today Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art.

Danish medieval painting is almost entirely known from church frescos such as those from the 16th-century artist known as the Elmelunde Master.

The Reformation greatly disrupted Danish artistic traditions, and left the existing body of painters and sculptors without large markets.

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John Palmer Wicker | Autumn, 1924 | Detroit Institute of Arts

John Palmer Wicker (1860-1931) was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Feb. 23, 1860; son of William W. and Charlotte Adelaide (Palmer) Wicker; studied art seven years in Paris, three and one-half years at Julian Academy under William Bouguereau, and three and one-half years in private classes of Ferdinand Cormon; married at Saginaw, Mich., July, 1897, Marie Louise Saxmann.

Exhibited portraits three times in Paris salons; exhibited three portraits at St. Louis Exposition, 1904; has taught for ten years; associate director Detroit Fine Arts Academy.

Jens Ferdinand Willumsen | Symbolist / Expressionist painter

Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (7 September 1863 - 4 April 1958) was a Danish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and photographer. He became associated with the movements of Symbolism🎨 and Expressionism.

J. F. Willumsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Willumsen and Ane Kirstine. He was initially trained in art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1881-1885 and in architecture at the Copenhagen Technical College from 1879-1882. He completed his education in 1885 with the artists P.S. Krøyer🎨 (1851-1909) and Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927).

His works were exhibited in the Paris Salon, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Société des Artistes Indépendants, the art gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville and at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

He was employed from 1897-1900 as an artistic director at the porcelain factory Bing and Grøndahl. Besides painting, Willumsen had interests in sculpture, architecture, ceramics, and photography, and was an accomplished engraver.

His sculpture The Great Relief🎨 (completed 1928) was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon as one of Denmark's cultural masterpieces.
Willumsen visited Norway in 1892 and had associations with Skagen in the north of Jutland which he first visited in 1906. It was here that he carried out most of the preparatory work on his painting Badende børn på Skagen strand (completed in 1909).

Willumsen was an influence on Norwegian landscape painter Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914), who attempted to simplify her art in order to follow his style.
In 1910, he toured Spain, Italy, Greece and Tunisia. Willumsen lived almost half of his life in France. He settled in the south of France in 1916.
He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal🎨 in 1947. He died in Cannes during 1958.

The J.F. Willumsens Museum, which exhibits many of his works, was opened during 1957 in Frederikssund. There are also paintings by Willumsen in the collection of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark and at the special Victor Petersen's Willumsen Collection near Hjørring.

PJens Ferdinand Willumsen nasce a Copenaghen il 7 settembre del 1863, figlio unico di Hans Willumsen ed Ane Kirstine. Lo stesso Willumsen credeva che lo scultore Jens Adolf Jerichau fosse il suo vero padre. Il rapporto con la madre fu sempre ottimo, mentre più problematico fu il legame con il padre. Alla morte di Ane nel 1899 il giovane artista costruì un imponente monumento funebre per i suoi genitori, eretto definitivamente nella città di Vestre Kirkegård nel 1901. Suo padre morì nel 1910.

Si sposò due volte. Il suo primo matrimonio, con Juliette Meyer, gli diede due figli, Jan e Bode. Juliette fu anche modella per Willumsen. Nel 1903 sposò la scultrice Edith Wessel con la quale ebbe due figlie, Gersemi e Anse. Anche Edith compare nelle opere dell'artista, in particolare in Alpina (Hagemans Kollegium and The Royal Musem of Fine Arts) e in Dopo la tempesta, nelle vesti di madre in The evening Soup e in Il Pittore e la sua famiglia. Alcune le due figlie appaiono in alcuni lavori.

Trascorse la vecchiaia in compagnia della ballerina e pittrice francese Michelle Bourret, ritratta nei lavori degli anni trenta. Tutte le sue mogli furono artiste e lo supportarono nella sua attività.

Visse quasi metà della sua vita in Francia. Morì a Cannes nel 1958.