Maleren frits thaulow biography

Frits Thaulow was a Norwegian Impressionist painter, best known for his naturalistic depictions of landscape.
A relatively unknown Norwegian painter and engraver named Frits Thaulow.
Unlike his father, he has also painted many cityscapes from Copenhagen.

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Picquigny

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Title:Picquigny

Artist:Frits Thaulow (Norwegian, Oslo (Kristiania) 1847–1906 Volendam, The Netherlands)

Date:1899

Medium:Oil on canvas

Dimensions:28 3/4 × 36 1/4 in. (73 × 92 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Credit Line:Gift of Christen Sveaas, 2021

Object Number:2021.159

The Artist: Frits Thaulow was in the vanguard of artists who adapted and promoted the dynamic approach to landscape painting pioneered by French Realists and Impressionists in the 1860s and 1870s. Thaulow’s naturalistic depictions of the countryside in his native Norway and in France brought together progressive tendencies in Norwegian and French art. He also bridged artistic communities in the two countries through the personal and professional connections he created and fostered among others. Over the course of his career, Thaulow travelled and exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, forming a large circle of artist friends whose work he encouraged and collected. His insider status in the el

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Frits Thaulow’s Water Mill

When I wrote about Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow back in 2006, I mentioned that he had become one of my favorite painters on the basis of a single, striking painting that is part of the Johnson Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

That painting is Water Mill, shown above. When I wrote the article I was disappointed to note that I couldn’t find any large reproductions of this particular work on the web, and made a mental note to take a photograph on a future visit to the museum.

Sometimes my mental notes can take a while to rotate forward on the cluttered bulletin board of my overworked brain, but I was at the Philadelphia Museum the other day and happened to take my camera (like many high-end museums, non-flash photography is permitted of works in the museum’s own holdings).

Since then, the museum has posted a larger view of the work on their site, including a Flash feature that allows you to zoom in. I’ve also done something I don’t normally do and posted a larger version of my shot here. I think the co

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