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Frits Thaulow Biography

Norwegian painter, printmaker, pastellist, landscapist, engraver and author
born 1847 - died 1906
Also known as: Frits Johan Fredrik Thaulow, Johan Frederik Thaulow, Johan Fredrik Thaulow.

Student of: Hans Fredrik Gude (1825-1903) from 1873 to 1875, Carl Frederik Sorensen (1818-1879).
Teacher of: Roman Kryzanovsky (1885-1929), Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in 1883, Gustav Wentzel (1859-1927) in 1883.
Friend of: Claude Monet (1840-1926), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).

Thaulow, Fritz (tou'lō) [key], 1847–1906, Norwegian landscape painter. Fritz Thaulow studied in Paris. Influenced by impressionism, he painted canals, riverbanks, and snow scenes. He is represented in various Swedish galleries and in the museums of Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Worcester, Mass.

The brother-in-law of Paul Gauguin and good friend of Claude Monet, Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow began his artistic studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, which at the time specialized in marine painting. He had hoped to become a marine painter, but he soon realized the limitations of such a specialized field and concentrated instead on landscape painting. Fritz Thaulow apprenticed with Norwegian landscape painter Hans-Fredrik Gude in Karlsruhe, Germany for two winters, before leaving for Paris in the early 1870s.

Paris, a cosmopolitan center and mecca for art students of all nationalities, boasted a sizable population of expatriate Norwegian artists, which Frits Thaulow soon joined. It was through these artists that he was exposed to plein-air painting, which subsequently became the operative influence on Fritz Thaulow painting for the rest of his career. His style followed that of the French realist painters, particularly exemplified by Jules Bastien-Lepage, more than it followed the Impressionists, although Fritz Thaulow shared the same concerns with color and light as his Impressionist contemporaries.

He began to exhibit frequently, contributing pictures to the Paris Salons from 1877 through 1880, and becoming a familiar figure in the Parisian art world.

Upon his return to Norway in the 1880s, Frits Thaulow was acclaimed as Oslo’s foremost painter, noted primarily for his scenes of historic Oslo and the surrounding countryside. Thaulow, though, was a relentless traveler, and, as his varied landscape paintings attest, traveled far afield from his native Scandinavia to Germany, Great Britain, the United States, France, and Italy. Fritz Thaulow spent the summer of 1885 painting the environs of Venice, and exhibited to great acclaim five Venetian scenes at the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo later that year. Venice proved enough of an attraction that he revisited the city in 1897 and again in 1899. In addition to expanding his reputation as a painter, in the 1880s Thaulow also became active in Oslo’s art world. Frits Thaulow arranged the Autumn Exhibition in 1882, and chaired the Artists’ Club in 1883. He helped to found the progressive Artists’ Union in 1885, and served as its president in 1887 and 1888. During this time he advised his young cousin, Edvard Munch, and helped him weather the effects of an unreceptive public.

By the late 1880s, Thaulow strengthened his ties to France. Fritz Thaulow was friends with Auguste Rodin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, and Emi1e-Auguste Carolus-Duran. He was also close friends with Claude Monet, and he encouraged the great French artist to travel with him to Norway to paint snow scenes in 1895, by which time Thaulow had become a permanent resident of France. In 1898, Frits Thaulow was recruited by Andrew Carnegie to serve on the jury of one of the international exhibitions of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On his trip to America, Thaulow visited New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, and painted a number of paintings of American scenery.