Johannes Larsen self-portrait, 1946, Image source:Trap Danmark
Johannes Larsen (1867-1961) was a Danish nature painter who focused on painting birds, becoming known as a bird painter, a common genre in Scandinavia.
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Johnes Lason was born in 1867 in Kate Mingne, Denmark, Danish, and his father was a businessman. In 1880, Lason studied and studied in Copenhagen from the famous artist Kristian Zahrtmann, and began to learn painting systematically. There he met other painters from Philippines, especially Fritz Syberg and Peter Marius Hansen. Both came from the port of the southern Fort, and the Fynboerne group (Fynboerne) was born. They created an art genre and influenced many Danish and Swedish artists.
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In 1898, Johannes Larsen married the painter Alhed Maria Warberg. Between 1901 and 1902, the artist couple built their own home in Møllebacken in Kerteminde, where they lived for the rest of their lives until the age of 94. Their home later became a summer gathering place for many painters, especially young artists from the Zartmann school.
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Johnes Lason likes to create naturally, especially to draw birds. The earliest he created through woodcuts and small paintings. Later, with the improvement of popularity, he began to receive illustrations for books drawing illustrations and commissioning large -scale paintings for public buildings, such as the Queen reception room of the Christian Castle (Danish Parliament) Essence.
Tufted Ducks,48 x 63,5 cm,1912 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Ducks,Pen, ink, brush og watercolor on paper,243 x 373 mm,1895 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Johnes Lason has also participated in many book illustration drawing work, such as "Steen Stensen Blicher" poetry masterpiece "Steen Steensen Blicher". This collection of poems includes 30 birds about birds Poetry. Johnnes Lason, who studied bird themes throughout his life, knows British's poems very well. He used watercolor and oil paintings to create a lot of wonderful illustrations for this collection of poems. The work contains complete and scientific birds behind his works. With his understanding, he also believes that this collection of poems has improved the new dimension for the research and creation of its own birds.
"Birds given natural voices and souls." Johnnes Lason said.
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The Copenhagen Zoo in Winter,51,5 x 84 cm,1891 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Black-headed Gulls,Pen, ink, brush og watercolor on paper,240 x 374 mm,1895 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Study of a Dead Black Grouse,Pen, ink, brush og watercolor on paper,385 x 615 mm,1896 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Studies of a Dead Sheldrake,Pen, ink, brush og watercolor on paper,465 x 613 mm,1897 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Studies of Eiders and Crows,Black chalk, brush og watercolor on paper,485 x 710 mm,1899 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Goldeneyes in an Ice Hole,Casein on composition board,89 x 122 cm,1899 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Warm Spring Day. Seascape with Four Swimming Gulls,57,5 x 71,5 cm,1932 Image source: Ordrupgaard
Singing swans, coots and ducks at Filsø. Image source: invaluable
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