Amaldus Nielsen

Amaldus Clarin Nielsen ( * May 23, 1838 in Mandal, † December 10, 1932 in Oslo) was a Norwegian painter.

He is mainly known for its accurate as evocative oil paintings landscapes coastal towns. In Scandinavia it is often called " The coast painters " ( Kystens painter ) or " The Painter of Sørland region " means ( Sørlandets painter ). He is also regarded as the first Norwegian landscape painter of realism, who painted outdoors consistently, directly oriented in nature, and strongly to natural conditions, and thus the "artificial", was contrary to national romantic flow of his time. His work, in particular the many sea motives are shaped by natural color, fine detail and intense play of light.

Life

Amaldus Nielsen was the son of the skipper and merchant Niels Nielsen and his wife Andrea Marie in Mandal, the southernmost city in Norway, born, where he spent his childhood. From 1854 to 1856 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Then he went - as well as other Norwegian painter of his generation - from 1857 to 1859 to Hans Gude at the Dusseldorf Art Academy (see also: Düsseldorf School ) and was then ten years later at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe again Gude students. Together with Adolph Gude Tidemand was the main representative of the " Norwegian Romance". In the training Amaldus Nielsen refined especially his technique - the motif of the Romantic school, he was, however, hardly connected.

As one of the first he stayed after his training not in Germany, but returned to Norway to feed on his art. He undertook a wide range of travel, mainly by Norway, among others, but also to Spain, where he particularly studied the reflection of light in Cadiz for some time in the water.

In 1868 he married Johanne Nicoline Augusta Vangensten. In 1869 the young family moved into the district Majorstua of Christiania, as Oslo was then called. The later " Amaldhus " called home, Majorstuveien 8 ( Hegdehaugen ), remained until his death residence of the Nielsen family; later lived there Thor Heyerdahl.

Died in 1886 Nielsen's wife and three of the common eleven children in a diphtheria epidemic. At the age of 50 years Amaldus Nielsen married in 1888 his second wife Laura Ambor Møller Tandberg.

Later he was traveling to a large extent and concentrated his work on further developments of earlier designs and pictures of the nearby area. In 1932 he died at the age of 94 years in Oslo.

Works

As a landscape painter, Nielsen primarily dealt with the representation of his well- known since childhood, domestic Skagerrak coast, drew and painted but also fjords and general marine and coastal motifs. Its strength were extremely wide-format landscapes that act alone, despite isolated figures and boats and radiate an unsurpassed tranquility. Only a small, predominantly incurred in later years part of Amaldus Nielsen's works depicting people or urban motifs as essential image components.

Since Nielsen's family in 1933, a year had after his death, most of the collection of the City of Oslo donated the municipal Stenersen Museum with more than 300 paintings and 100 drawings from the years 1856 to 1932 has the most comprehensive collection of his works. The Museum in Nielsen's birthplace Mandal can come up with another 130 works, of which about 70 is shown as part of the permanent exhibition. Individual works are also seen in Kristiansand Sørlandets Art Museum, museums in Bergen and Trondheim, and the Norwegian National Gallery in Oslo.

Nielsen's best-known painting is finished in 1885 morning ved Ny- Hellesund (the place belongs to Søgne ), which is shown in the Norwegian National Gallery. The morning also i Ny- Hellesund called motif has painted over the years again and again in different versions Nielsen. Also among the better-known works include Aften ved Fredrikstad in 1909 and Hodnestranden of 1914; the latter is in the Storebrand Art Collection in Oslo.

Ænes ved Hardangerfjord (1886 )

Aftenstemning over havet (1897 )

Aften ved Frederiksstad (1909 )