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1853 Copenhagen, Denmark - 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark. Known for: Realist portrait, genre and sea-landscape painting, sculpture.
Laurits Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor, specializing in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters*. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art... Read full biography
Laurits Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor, specializing in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters*. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish... Read full biography
Laurits Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor, specializing in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters*. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy* of Fine Arts. Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P.S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters. He first visited... Read full biography
Laurits Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor, specializing in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters*. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy* of Fine Arts. Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P.S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters. He first visited Skagen in 1870 and he returned on several occasions. In the 1880s and 1890s, he traveled widely painting portraits for Europe's royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty. In 1901, after the death of his... Read full biography
Laurits Tuxen was a Danish painter and sculptor, specializing in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters*. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy* of Fine Arts. Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P.S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters. He first visited Skagen in 1870 and he returned on several occasions. In the 1880s and 1890s, he traveled widely painting portraits for Europe's royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty. In 1901, after the death of his first wife Ursule, he married the Norwegian Frederikke Treschow and shortly afterwards purchased Madam Bendsen's house at the artists'... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Skagen Painters, Denmark