Tuxen, Laurits

Biografi i relation til Skagen

Svanholm, Skagen Leksikon:

... I Frankrig havde han lært at benytte valørmaleriet, som dannede baggrund for naturalismen. Blev af kollegaerne opfordret til at undervise dem i den nye malemåde. Da Krøyer kom hjem i 1881, dannede de to Kunstnerenes Studieskole, populært kaldet Tuxens og Krøyers Skole.

Den nye malemåde dannede basis for det arbejde, som udviklede sig til det moderne gennembrud i 1880'erne i Skagen. Han deltog ikke selv, for han havde travlt med at male kongelige gruppeportrætter, især dronning Victoria i England.

Efter han blev gift med Frederikke Treschow, drog parret til skagen og købte Madam Bendsens Gård i Vesterby - Se under Tuxens Villa Dagminne

Villa Dagminne til minde om prinsesse Dagmar, den russiske enkekejserinde.

Blev vigtige medlemmer af kunstnerkolonien og Tuxen var iniativtager til Skagens Museum, medlem af bestyrelsen og formand 1925-26.

Frederikke adopterede Yvonne, 1894-1987 og Nina, 1898-1982, døtre af Tuxens første kone, den fransk-belgiske Ursule de Baisieux, som døde i 1899 af tuberkulose.

Biograhpy in relation to Skagen

English (source Christa Zaat on Facebook)

Laurits Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen. His father was a marine officer, and originally Tuxen wanted to become a marine painter. At the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, however, he and Krøyer were considered to be among the best students, and he was therefore encouraged to take up figure painting which was regarded as the finest genre of painting.

Tuxen first came to Skagen in 1870, and he returned on several occasions during the 1870's. However, it took more than 20 years before he came back to stay in Skagen in 1901. In the intervening period, he travelled a lot, completing a number of large works commissioned by the royalties and nobilities of Europe.

Tuxen's first wife, the Belgian Ursule de Baisieux, died from tuberculosis in 1899. In 1901, he married the Norwegian Frederikke Treschow, and they settled in Copenhagen together with Tuxen's two daughters, Yvonne and Nina. Later that year the couple purchased Madam Bendsen's house in Skagen and rebuilt it into a stately summer residence, which in 1908 was given the name Dagminne – Dag Memorial – in memory of Princess Dagmar's visit to Skagen that year.

In the following years, Tuxen painted a number of pictures in and around Skagen. However, he was preoccupied with the near motifs: family, friends, landscape, sea and the garden flowers. Furthermore, he took a vivid interest in the foundation of Skagens Museum.