Frits Thaulow

Fritz Thaulow ( born October 20, 1847 in Christiania (now Oslo), † November 5, 1906 in Volendam, Netherlands) was a Norwegian painter of the 19th century.

Life

Fritz Thaulow - son of the pharmacist Harald Conrad Thaulow (1815-1881) and his wife Nina Munch (1821-1871) - was a nephew of the Kiel Museum founder Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow. From 1870 to 1872, he was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 1873 to 1875 he was a pupil of Hans Gude in Karlsruhe. In the following years he held, inter alia, to in Paris, where he was influenced by the French Impressionists.

1880 turned Thaulow, now a convinced naturalist, temporarily his homeland. Together with Christian Krohg and Erik Werenskiold he fought for an expanded concept of art beyond bourgeois ideals. Among other things, it is thanks to him that 1882 could be the so-called 'Autumn Exhibition ( Høstutstillingen ), an annual presentation of contemporary art in Oslo established.

1886 married Fritz Thaulow and Alexandra Lasson ( 1862-1955 ), a sister of the painter Oda Krohg. The marriage came from the writer Harald Thaulow ( 1887-1971 ).

In 1892 he moved back to France where he lived first in Dieppe. In subsequent years, he participated in various exhibitions, such as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition ( 1895) or the International Art Exhibition. 1898, following a stay in the U.S., he settled permanently in Paris, where it be known salon earned international fame among others.

In 1901 he was awarded honorary membership of the academies of Munich, Stockholm and Copenhagen.