Adolph Tidemand
Adolph Tidemand ( born August 14, 1814 Mandal, † August 25 1876 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian painter of the Düsseldorf school and the leading painter of the Norwegian National Romanticism.
Life
Adolph Tidemand grew up in Mandal, the southernmost city in Norway, where his father was a customs inspector. He first received private drawing lessons. Because of family ties, he came to the drawing school in Christiania and studied from 1832 to 1837 in Copenhagen. In 1833 he became a student of the Royal Danish Academy of Art, where he first exhibited in 1835.
1837 to 1841 he continued his studies at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. There he painted a farm and in 1838 the image from the coast returning fishermen, which was purchased at the initiative of Thomas Fearnley and others by Kunstverein Christiania. His painting Gustav Vasa taler til dalalmuen i Mora kirke (1841 ) was sold to a German art club and provoked such enthusiasm that it was soon issued out in Christiania.
In 1841 he went with his brother Emil on a study trip to Italy, where among other things the painting Neapolitan Fischer ( 1842) was born. In the years 1842-1845 he traveled around a lot in Norway, according to Østerdalen, Gudbrandsdalen, Sogn, Hardanger and Telemark. On these trips the images Eventyrfortellersken (1844 ), Søndagskveld i en hardangersk røkstue (1843 ) and Gudstjeneste i en norsk landsens kirke (1845 ) emerged.
1845 married Tidemand Claudine Marie Bergitte Jæger ( 1817-1887 ). The couple settled in Dusseldorf.
1848 ordered the Theatre of Christiania at Tidemand and which eleven years younger than Hans Fredrik Gude a painting Brudeferd i Hardanger ( Bridal trip on the Hardanger Fjord ). A corresponding text by Andreas Munch was listed in 1849 with music by Halfdan Kjerulf.
In the 1850s Tidemand had many jobs and undertook a short study trips from Dusseldorf starting. For the royal castle Oscarshall 1852 he painted the series peasant life. 1855 and 1867 he exhibited at World Expo in Paris. In 1869 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy.
Work
Tidemand was particularly influenced by the national romanticism and the realism. Paintings like Frithjofs farewell (1836 ) are strongly romantic. Its importance is but socially critical approach of many of his pictures. The pottery workshop (before 1835), Haugianerandacht (1852 ), Memorial (1854 ), The Homecoming of Parliamentarians ( 1857) attests to his concern. But his national romantic impetus was not lost, as his source for the Christian in Tønsberg laid in the three-volume folio Tafelwerk Folkelivsbilleder shows. For Norway, its importance lay primarily in its national-romantic work.
From Tidemand made many portraits.
Although he also painted landscapes, he teamed up for major projects in which landscapes and figures occurred, together with colleagues who specialized in landscape painting. So is the most famous Norwegian paintings of that time, the bridal procession in Hardanger (1848 ), a joint work of Hans Fredrik Gude and Tidemand, as well as the subsequent screen corpse drive in Hardanger (1853 ). Still in 1876, he painted with Morten Müller together Landing Sinclair in Romsdal.
Selections
The National Gallery Oslo owns approximately 100 paintings by Tidemand.