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Frits Thaulow

From the Castle Park

From the Castle Park

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Date: 1882

Other titles: The Palace Park, Oslo (ENG)

Designation: Painting

Material and technique: Oil on wooden panel

Technique: Oil

Material: Wooden board

Dimensions: 44 x 31 cm

Subject: Visual arts

Classification: 532 - Visual arts

Motif type: Landscape City prospect

Motif - place: Bellevue Oslo

Acquisition: Testamentary gift from Bergljot Skamarken, received 1977

Inventory no.: NG.M.03139

Part of exhibition: Art audience. The National Museum in the Kunststallen, 2021

Registration level: Single object

Owner and collection: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Visual Art Collections

Photo: Børre Høstland

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Frits Thaulow

Frits Thaulow was a Norwegian landscape painter and a leading figure in naturalistic painting in the 1880s. He became a renowned painter in Europe from 1889 and settled in France in 1892. Thaulow's sensitivity to color and poetry made his naturalism meaningful to colleagues, critics and audiences for two generations. Thaulow was born in Christiania and grew up in a liberal home with a wealthy apothecary father. He had a talent for friendship and a capacity for initiative.

He fulfilled his father's wish to study pharmacy before breaking through as a painter around 1880. Thaulow was tutored by CF Sørensen, the foremost Danish master of marine painting, and Hans F. Gude, the most important Norwegian marine painter, before spending three winters in Paris and familiarized himself with recent trends in French art. He became enthusiastic about Jules Bastien-Lepage, who was admired at the time as the leader of the young "realists". In the early 1880s, Thaulow's art was linked to the city itself and its surroundings, but with detours to Kragerø, Paris, Copenhagen, Scotland and Venice until 1885.

From 1885, winter entered his pictures. Thaulow's efforts in the 1880s were of fundamental importance for the entire Norwegian "naturalist" school of painting. He gave it a refined touch of intimacy and color beauty that inspired, and he had an open eye for talent around him. Thaulow did not want to advocate art doctrines and never claimed that "everything can be painted, as long as it is well painted" or the like. He never became an impressionist, although he experimented with the direction during a stay in Paris in 1882-1883. Thaulow moved to France in 1892, but was often at home on painting stays. He died in 1906.