Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerichau seems to have been seriously influenced by Paul Cezanne! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:26 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > It seems a bit frivolous to post photos right now, having just learned of > the loss of Jim, but on the other hand life goes on and I think he would > have liked many of these, based on comments he has given me over the years. > > After my 3 days in Aarhus, I went to Copenhagen for one night, using the > approximately 1.5 days there to visit my parents? graves and to get > together with friends. It was raining most of the time on the first day, > but no matter?I still enjoyed the city. And much of my planned activity was > indoors anyway, especially a visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in > Humleb?k, about 30 km north of Copenhagen. This time, the highlight was an > exhibition of work by Danish painter J.A. Jerichau, who committed suicide > at age 26 (1890-1916) and was largely forgotten for many years even though > his paintings were a source of inspiration cited by subsequent famous > artists like Asger Jorn and Per Kirkeby. Jerichau was ahead of his time in > many ways, and the fact that he was bisexual at a time when such a sexual > orientation was frowned upon did not make his life easier. His artistic > career lasted just 6-7 years but produced impressive work which I show in > this small gallery of my short visit to Copenhagen: > > http://www.frozenlight.eu/cph_nov2021/ > > There are also photos from the city itself, of course. > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information