On the garden doorway, the artist's wife (1897), for which la Ring won a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
Laurits Andersen Ring was a Danish painter of symbolic social realism.
Lauritz (15 August 1854 – 10 September 1933) was one of the most important Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, pioneering the Danish style of symbolism and social realism. His work "Summer" is considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture and was included in the Danish Cultural Congress in 2006.
Laurits Andersen Ring(1854-1933)
Lauritz was born on 15 August 1854 in the ring village of southern New Zealand to the son of wheel maker and carpenter Anders Olson (1816–1883) and farmer's daughter John Anderstadt (1814–1895). In 1869, he became an apprentice painter because his brother was taking over his father's workshop. In 1873, while working in Copenhagen, Lauritz decided to take painting lessons, and after two years of private study, he was admitted to the Danish Academy of Arts in 1875 and studied briefly with the painter P.S. kroyer. He was never satisfied with the academy and did not like the rigorous training of classical disciplines.
At the breakfast table and in the morning newspaper [At Breakfast] (1898) Sigrid Kähler, the painter's wife
Stand in front of the window and gaze at the past, or gaze at the rising sun. His paintings remind people of Wise's paintings, light and people, movement and stillness, and freeze time in moments of deep meaning and beauty.
In 1881, Lauritz and his friend, Hans Andersen, a painter from the village of Blander Kilder, decided to change their surnames and take the names of their home villages to avoid confusion in their joint exhibitions. Lauritz became the Guard, and his friend Hans became H.A. Brendekilde. Lauritz's first exhibition took place in 1882, but it was not until 1884, the year he completed the railway guard, that he was recognized (Banevogteren, 1884). At this time, Denmark was in the midst of political turmoil as Council President Estrupp bypassed democratic rule and governed by decree. Lauritz was active in the "Rifle Movement," a revolutionary student body that received weapons training in preparation for the rebellion. He was increasingly concerned about the plight of the poor and the justice of the lower classes.
While living in Copenhagen, Lauritz became a close friend of the family of lawyers and amateur painters Alexander Wilde. He spent Christmas and summer vacations with his family and forged a close friendship with Wilde's wife, Johnny. He loved her deeply, but she remained loyal to her husband, despite the frequent exchange of intimate letters between the two. Lauritz painted many gentle portraits of Madame Wilde. When he realized the relationship would never materialize, he left her and went through a period of extreme frustration. In 1893 he received a travel allowance and studied in Italy for a year.
In 1894, Lauritz was used by the Danish writer and later Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan as a model for the characters in his novel Nattevagt. Lauritz is an unlikable character named Solkie Drelin, a painter and a model of a failed revolution, a lover of his best friend's wife. Lauritz had no objection to such an unflattering depiction, but it annoyed him that Pontopidan would publicly reveal his crush on John Wilde's wife in this way. Deeply hurt by Pontopidan's betrayal of faith, Lauritz severed his friendship and never gave any explanation.
There are few bustling and noisy pictures, or vast wilderness, or railways and windows, where a lonely person is quietly staring, and people are silently meditating in the environment. In the paintings of Norse painters, there is a same kind of melancholy, quiet and even mysterious. There is a sense of distance that is mesmerizing to the cold.
After returning from Italy, Lauritz began to create a series of paintings with his fellow painter Sigrid Kähler. She is the daughter of ceramic artist Herman Carlisle. In 1896, Lauritz married Carlisle, who was only 21 years old (Lauritz was 42). Before Carlisle died in 1923 at the age of 49, he had lived with three children in Calreb. In 1900, Lauritz won the bronze medal at the Paris World's Fair for his painting The Artist's Wife (I Havedøren, 1887) at the garden entrance. Their son, Ole Ring (1902-1972), also became a painter, and his painting style was heavily influenced by his father.
Summer in the Roskilde Fjords, an oil painting by LA Ring since 1900. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, it was included in the Danish cultural masterpiece in 2006. In the collection of the Landers Museum of Art.
His landscapes have a sense of otherworldly mystery and a "strange mixture of emotions". This style has been described as "anti-naturalistic".
For a time, Lauritz lived in the old schoolhouse in Baldersberglund, near Feldhausen, and later became the home of another painter, Ludwig Fende. He painted several paintings from these towns. Lauritz built a house in Sanktørgensbjerg in Roskilde overlooking the fjord – where He spent the last decade of his life before his death on 10 September 1933. In the second year of Lauritz's death, the author Peter Hertz published a biography in which he summarized Lauritz's life and work: "His work remains his life and essence: deep still water". Today, almost every Danish art museum has his work, including the Hirspring Collection in Copenhagen.