L. A. Ring - Knowledge

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although the two exchanged frequent and intimate letters. Ring painted many tender portraits of Mrs. Wilde. As Ring realized that the relation would never materialize he turned his back on the Wildes, experiencing a time of intense depression. In 1893 he received a travel stipend and spent the year studying in Italy.

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In Ring's art the road and the path are recurring themes, and other lines such as creeks, rivers and estuaries, the open sea and modern elements e.g. bridges, railway tracks and telephone cables are used as main motifs. The roads lead the eye into the paintings and out again, as a symbol of the human

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Ring's consistent engagement with the unpleasant realities of life caused one critic to dub him "the Apostle of the Hideous". Others have interpreted the drive towards unsentimental realism as an expression of Ring's atheist life stance. Ring himself quipped on his 40th birthday that "Life is short -

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had bypassed democratic rule and governed through decrees. Ring was politically active in the "Rifle movement", a revolutionary group of students taking up arms training in preparation for a rebellion. Ring became increasingly interested in the difficulties of the poor and social justice for the

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While he lived in Copenhagen, he became a close friend of the family of lawyer and amateur painter Alexander Wilde. He spent Christmas and summers with the family and formed a close friendship with Wilde's wife, Johanne. Ring was deeply in love with her but she remained faithful to her husband,

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His entire work demonstrates a division between an attachment to tradition and the spirit of modernity. Many of his paintings depict crossings and thresholds: the space between waiting and leaving in a doorway, at a window or at a railroad crossing. This symbolism is visible for example in his

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Ring in particular painted landscapes, but in the beginning of his career it was not the landscape painting that dominated his art. Up until 1887 there were about 10 landscape paintings out of approximately 90 works of art in his repertoire. From 1888 and until his death in 1933 the landscape

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In 1881, he and his friend, the painter Hans Andersen from the village of Brændekilde, decided to change their last names, taking the names of their native villages, in order to avoid confusion at their joint exhibition. Laurits became L. A. Ring, and his friend Hans became

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1887) showing how the rural poor would pick up the grain left behind by the increasingly industrial methods of harvesting, a motif first made famous by Millet. Most of his paintings depict the village life and landscapes of southern Zealand from

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showing the artists wife, pregnant in the doorway between the living room and the garden with a background of gnarled and withered branches. Sometimes more than one circle of motif is present in a painting, e.g. Runesten ved

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The paintings all have a high horizontal line and the people do not tower into the sky in accordance with Ring's atheist attitude. Rather, they stay at the ground and have furthermore absorbed colour from the surroundings.

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in 1895 Ring was very preoccupied with death and that left traces in his world of motifs as well in the landscape paintings as in the figure paintings. During the travel to Italy 1893-95 Ring had plans to paint a

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Ring often uses doors and windows as thresholds. In some of the threshold paintings the person depicted is in a hesitant position in front of the doorway or window waiting to be able to connect with the outside world.

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As a painter, Ring never distanced himself from his humble origin, but rather made it his dominant theme, depicting the reality of rural life. This is visible for example in his painting

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1884) becomes a depiction not just of a working man, nor of his brother who was the model, but of the cycle of life as symbolized by the scythe cutting the ripe corn.

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remains as his life and essence: The still water of profound depth". Today there are examples of his work at practically every Danish art museum including the

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Since 1951 Ring's works have been described in more than 150 articles, newspapers, journals and books. Furthermore, there has been several exhibitions in

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Finn Terman Frederiksen, EN KÆRLIGHEDSHISTORIE: Nogle kunsthistoriske konsekvenser af L.A. Rings forhold til Johanne Wilde. Udtryk vol. 8:1, 2007,

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For a while, he lived at Baldersbrønde near Hedehusene in the old school building, which was later to be the home of another painter,

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Patricia G. Berman. 2007. In another light: Danish painting in the nineteenth century. Vendome Press, Oct 1, 2007 p. 193

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and abroad showcasing Ring's works of art: a Danish-Swedish travelling exhibition in 1973 with 46 works, the exhibition

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A feature often seen in Ring's art is to place one or more objects at the edge of picture, which can be seen in e.g.

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The painting of Ring's wife, Sigrid Kähler, is surrounded by subtle symbols indicating his love for her, such as the

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the couple had three children before Kähler died in 1923, at age 49. In 1900, he received the bronze medal at the

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L.A. Ring painted social realistic portrayals of rural laborers, but not as noteworthy as Henningsen's

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from 1910. They are all painted in the large format approximately 185 x 111,5 cm except from

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Upon his return from Italy, he started working on a series of paintings with fellow painter

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according to the Ancient Greeks, and used in Denmark to adorn the bride at weddings.

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in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, his painting

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Streamable movie about life of L. A. Ring at the Danish State Museum of Art

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published a biography in which he summarized Ring's life and work: "His

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In other motifs it is the ultimate threshold before death, as seen in

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Indhegnede grønninger ved en gård med en storkerede på taget, Skærbæk

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in 1982-83 at three locations in USA, a large-scale exhibition at

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painting however made up about three quarters of his production.

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After the death of the brother in 1886 and until the return from

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Efter solnedgang, "Nu skrider Dagen under, og Natten vælder ud"

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In 1894, Ring was used as a model for a character in the novel

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Efter solnedgang, "Nu skrider Dagen under, og Natten vælder ud

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Når toget ventes - Jernbaneoverskæring ved Roskilde Landevej

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L.A. Ring, På Kanten af Verden. Ud.Tryk vol. 8:1. p. 1

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of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both

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