Laurits andersen ring biography

Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark.
Ring was born as Laurits Andersen in a village named Ring in southern Zealand.
Born in 1854, in the village of Ring, in Southern Zealand, Denmark (from where he took his name), Laurits Andersen Ring trained at the Royal Danish Academy of.

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L. A. Ring

I absolutely love Ring’s landscapes. They are so unusual: depicting the Scandinavian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century, showing ever-encroaching industrialism with ambivalence. Despite this, Ring was a revolutionary – in the mid-1880s, he was a part of ‘The Rifle Movement’, who believed that the Danish lower classes deserved better. He spent his whole life waiting for a revolution that never came, and eventually fell into a deep depression, which is a poignant theme throughout his symbolist paintings. Common themes in his oeuvre include death, rural labourers, winding roads, and thresholds such as windows – view his artwork on these themes.

Ring’s landscapes are masterful and beautiful. His most widely known work, ‘Summer’s Day by Roskilde Fjord’, is a tranquil slice of earthy-greens and sunrise pinks, blending into the cloudless blue sky. The hint of a ship sailing out of view also provides an insight into traditional ways of life fading into insignificance due to industrial advances. This work is so important to Danish art and culture, th

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Laurits Andersen Ring

Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, his painting Summer Day by Roskilde Fjord was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.

Ring was born as Laurits Andersen a village named Ring in southern Zealand. Ring's parents were wheelmaker and carpenter Anders Olsen (1816–83) and farmer's daughter Johanne Andersdatter (1814–95). In 1869, he became a painter's apprentice because his older brother was to take over the father's workshop. In 1873, while working in Copenhagen Laurits decided to take classes in painting, and after two years of private studies he was accepted at the Danish Academy of Arts in 1875 and studied briefly with painter P. S. Krøyer. He was never content with the academy and disliked the strict training in classical disciplines.

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

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L. A. Ring

Danish artist

Laurits Andersen Ring (Danish pronunciation:[ˈlɑwʁitsˈɑnɐsn̩ˈʁeŋˀ]; 15 August 1854 – 10 September 1933) was one of the foremost Danishpainters of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, his painting Summer Day by Roskilde Fjord was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.

Life

Ring was born as Laurits Andersen in a village named Ring in southern Zealand. Ring's parents were wheelmaker and carpenter Anders Olsen (1816–83) and farmer's daughter Johanne Andersdatter (1814–95). In 1869, he became a painter's apprentice because his older brother was to take over the father's workshop. In 1873, while working in Copenhagen Laurits decided to take classes in painting, and after two years of private studies he was accepted at the Danish Academy of Arts in 1875 and studied briefly with painter P. S. Krøyer. He was never content with the academy and disliked the strict training in classical disciplines.^[1]

In 1881, he and h