Geskel Saloman
Geskel Saloman (1 April 1821 in Tønder – July 5, 1902 in Båstad) was a Danish–Swedish portrait and genre painter. Soloman was one of the Bedřich Smetana's closest friends and painter of one of the three existing portraits of the founder of the Czech national music, then only 34 years old.[1]
Life
Geskel Saloman (née Solomon) was the son of merchant Isak Soloman, who later became
A short stay in
After resigning from the academy, he became a highly sought portrait painter in Sweden, but performed ever greater tasks, partly in genre pictures and later in historical compositions, or rather what we call "the historical genre", preserving even in his old age his freshness in painting. One of his earlier works, En Væverske med sit Barn, exhibited in Copenhagen in 1858, was given the honorable mention at the Salon de Paris, where he studied under the guidance of Thomas Couture between the years 1854-1855. From 1860 to 1863 he lived in the city of Algiers.[4]
Another older picture, news from the News from the Crimean War (1855), belongs to the Museum in Gothenburg, while A Young Girl With A Letter (1872) belongs to the
Works
- A Game of L'Hombre (1845)
- The First Violin Lesson (1846)
- The First-Born (1852)
- The Weaver Woman (1856)
- The Emigrants (1858)
- News from the Crimean War (1855)
- The Chicken Sacrifice (1862)
- A Young Girl with a Letter (1872)
- The Home-Coming of the Victor (1881)
- Gustavus Vasa and the Dalecarlians (1886)
- Marsk Stigs Daughters (1893)
- Ahasuerus and the Angel of Death (1896)
- The Blessing of the Sabbath Lights (1900)
Literary works
- The Restoration of the Venus de Milo, 1895, with plates
- The Sandalbinder: an Archaeological Essay, 1885
- The Statue of the Vatican or Belvedere Apollo, Central-druckerei, 1882
Gallery
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Emigration (1872)
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The Love Letter (1889)
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Bedřich Smetana (1837)
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View of Holmen (1858)
References
- OCLC 2446298.
- ISBN 87-7245-776-7.
- ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Saloman, Geskel. in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck. Vol 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, page 320.
- ^ a b Isidore Singer Frederick T. Haneman. "Saloman, Geskel". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ^ Landman, Isaac (1943). The Universal Jewish encyclopedia. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc. p. 320.
- ISBN 978-1-108-01712-1.
- Attribution
- This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the Danish Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section.
External links
- Geskel Saloman Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon