Erik Pauelsen
Erik Pauelsen ( born October 14, 1749 Bygom, North Jutland, † February 20, 1790 in Copenhagen) was a Danish artist, engraver and painter. After a more or less conventional creative phase Pauelsen has become the end of his life back in his depictions revolutionary when he discovered the north and the natural landscape of Norway has shown in some paintings, watercolors, prints and countless drawings. It is therefore in a time that the South and particularly Italy had almost exclusively in it an eye, was a pioneer who has taken a new path for himself and even subsequent generations of painters.
Life demolition
The municipality in which Erik Pauelsen has been ( probably illegitimate ) born to say, today (since 2007) Vesthimmerland. His talent for drawing, which has finally opened to him the way out into the world, must have shown in his very early. In his first creative period he seems to have fitted in his home the interior of houses with decorative paintings.
Around the year 1770 around Erik Pauelsen began to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He will be there soon circles of artists - met and over time many influential citizens in the Danish capital - probably much under actors. - His studies concluded Pauelsen from in 1777 and in April of the same year he married Anna Elisabeth Lobeck.
In the coming years, Erik has performed a variety of work Pauelsen: Mainly painted and engraved portraits, oil paintings with scenes from the Danish history and landscapes well in all techniques. In his portraits at the time, the influence of Vigilius Eriksen (1722-1782) and in the landscapes of Aelbert Jacobsz of. Cuyp (1620-1682) to be seen. In addition, he has also the book store og gode Handlinger af Danske, Norske og Holstenere ( Large and good actions of some Danes, Norwegians and Holsteiner ) of the Danish historian Ove Malling ( 1748-1829 ) illustrates. ( The book was published in 1779 in a translation in Germany. )
In 1780, Erik Pauelsen received a scholarship for a trip that in the next three years via Hamburg to Dusseldorf (1781 ), Paris ( 1782 ) and Rome ( 1783) led him from where he was in the same year, including over Dresden and Berlin, returned to Copenhagen. During the trip, he was a member of several art academies. In Paris he saw ( as well even before that ) works by Claude Lorrain ( 1600-1682 ) and is perhaps even with Claude Joseph Vernet ( 1714-1789 ) met later then probably in Rome with Angelica Kauffmann ( 1741-1807 ). In Dusseldorf Erik Pauelsen created a remarkable picture, a very mature work already, as he portrayed the then director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Lambert Krahe (1712-1790). The landscape of Italy has probably stimulated to no painting Erik Pauelsen, not even he seems to have made drawings there.
After his return, he soon became a member of the Copenhagen Academy of Art, but not as he had expected it appointed court painter and professor, what must have of course a bit disappointed him. In the works over the next few years, the impressions of his trip also appear to have not much effect. From 1785 to 1786 he painted the interiors of a manor house, which was located north of Copenhagen. The motives for his depictions he chose from the surrounding landscape. And at some point at this time needs to slow him the idea have come to go to Norway to discover the scenery there and map.
During the year 1787 probably succeeded then Erik Pauelsen to win the Danish court for his idea and Norway were among other things, asked him to purchase travel money and a printing press available. In 1788, he then traveled to Norway, where, often well, some watercolors, prints, and perhaps even painting has existed in a frenzy, many drawings. Because of his early death, he has this Norway album can not complete, but until then created things were already to realize that it would have been a remarkable work. And in this judgment there is no doubt as well not believe that Erik Pauelsen had now overcome all Academic and had become an artist who has discovered and announces something new, which is ultimately the point of all art.
From his Norwegian trip Erik Pauelsen should have brought exactly one hundred drawings by which he wanted to create many paintings in his studio over time, but fate has it only allowed a fraction. In the follow Pauelsens then, the Danish painter Christian August Lorentzen (1749-1828), who at the Art Academy in Copenhagen Pauelsens knew working as a teacher and thus probably stimulated in 1792 also visited Norway, edited Norwegian nature - views in diverse techniques. Also, the Norwegian painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788-1857), who studied in Copenhagen in Lorentzen and later with the presentation of Norwegian landscapes should have the greatest impact are most certainly been known Pauelsens work. And Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), who is also a student of Lorentz Been, is certainly in Copenhagen Pauelsen Norway images have seen (and others) and have been impressed with them; in any case can be in some of his works influences of Erik Pauelsen prove.
The end of Erik Pauelsen was tragic: he resigned in February 1790 in Copenhagen committed suicide.