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Johan Frederik (Frits) Thaulow
(1847- May 11, 1906 Oslo) Norwegian Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Frits (Fritz) Thaulow originally wanted to become a marine painter, he studied at the art academy in Copenhagen (1870–73) as well as with the Danish marine specialist C. F. Sorensen. He then went to Paris, where he spent much of the period 1875–9. His marine oil paintings and coastal paintings, some of which were accepted at the Paris Salon, were only moderately successful, but he acquired a fair knowledge of contemporary French Realist art and felt that Norwegian artists should learn from it.
In the autumn of 1879 Thaulow went to Skagen in Denmark, painting with a group of Scandinavians there and then on to Oslo. He spent the years 1879-92 in Norway, a very important period when Realist painting based on French models was accepted in Norway. His personal interpretation of the Norwegian landscape was widely felt to be new. He painted the streets and public gardens of his native Oslo and specialized in rendering Scandinavia, A Stone Bridge Over A Stream In Winter (1886, Paris, Muse d’Orsay). The winter scenes, garden pictures and townscapes he painted in the small town of Krageroe are particularly fine. He also became an expert at oil painting slow-flowing rivers and complex reflections in water, particularly during his autumn and winter stay beside the Simoa River in 1883, when he produced such paintings as An Orchard On The Banks Of A River (1883, National Gallery, Oslo). He also made a number of trips abroad, to Paris 1882-3, Scotland 1884, Venice 1885 and Germany 1885-6, where he painted works of great delicacy. Some show a slight influence from Impressionism, but this was never an important element in his artwork. During the 1880s he was prominent in establishing more progressive artists associations and exhibition societies and was regarded as the leading Norwegian artist of the period.
At the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris, Frits (Fritz) Thaulow made personal contacts with leading French artists and when the Salon du Champ de Mars was established in 1890, he became a highly regarded exhibitor there. He decided to move to France in 1892. He painted about 50 pictures a year, most of them rather small oil paintings and his output was handled by the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris. A large number of these oil paintings were river scenes of great virtuosity, but he also rendered poetic nocturnes, harbor scenes, quaint bridges and even seascapes. He avoided repeating himself by constantly traveling to various parts of France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway for his subject matter.
Thaulow was essentially a painter working within the framework of Realism, to which he made an original contribution. During the 1890s he used oil and pastel to create a more poetic and symbolic atmosphere in line with the prevailing artistic mood of the period and he could be compared in this respect with such painters as Whistler. He was a friend of Claude Oscar Monet and an important link between Norwegian and French art. The contents of his studio were auctioned in Paris in 1907. He was a master of portraying the interaction of light and water. Many of his oil paintings are river and lake scenes and his paintings are becoming more and more appreciated and collected now than ever before.
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A Stone Bridge Over A Stream In Winter
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An Orchard On The Banks Of A River
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After The Rain
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