Laurits Tuxen

Bathing People at Gammel Skagen Beach, 1914

Danish artist Laurits Tuxen captures a coastal landscape in the area of Gammel Skagen (Old Skagen) in soft and fresh pastel shades. Beginning in the front centre of the picture, the shoreline runs into the background, framing the moving sea, which is rendered in a broad spectrum of colours ranging from delicate pink to emerald green and strong stormy blue. A jetty is perceptible almost at the centre of the painting, with a few bathers in front. Inspired by French Impressionism, Tuxen’s loose and...

Signatur und Datierung: L.T. 14, unten rechts, handschriftlich

Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2003); MKdW (2003).
[Weiterführende Literatur] Lise Svanholm: Tuxen og Skagen. Skagens Museums små skrifter Nr. 1 Skagen 1990.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Mette Bøgh Jensen/Tine Nielsen Fabienke: Tuxen – Colour, Contryside and Crown, Ausst.-Kat. Skagens Museum/Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Guldborgsund, Aarhus 2014.

Laurits Tuxen (1853 - 1927)

Bathing People at Gammel Skagen Beach

1914

Oil on wood

20 x 28 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 TUX 02

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2003

Not on display