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Tuxen Family
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Tuxen is a Danish and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anne Vilde Tuxen (born 1998), Norwegian diver * Erik Tuxen (1902–1957), Danish conductor * Fanny Tuxen (1832–1906), Danish writer * Helle Tuxen (born 2001), Norwegian diver * Laurits Tuxen (1853–1927), Danish painter * Nicoline Tuxen (1847–1931), Danish painter * Saxil Tuxen (1885–1975), Australian town planner See also * Cape Tuxen Cape Tuxen () is a rocky cape forming the south side of the entrance to Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Vilde Tuxen
Anne Vilde Tuxen (born 27 February 1998) is a Norwegian competitive diver, born in Tananger. She qualified to represent Norway at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ... 2021, competing in women's 10 metre platform. She finished 28th in the event with a score of 219.15. References External links * * 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Stavanger Norwegian female divers Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic divers of Norway European Games competitors for Norway Divers at the 2015 European Games {{Norway-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Tuxen
Erik Oluf Tuxen (4 July 1902 – 28 August 1957) was a Danish big band leader, composer and arranger, who worked for most of his life in Denmark. From 1936 until his death by cancer on 28 August 1957 he was conductor at the Danish National Symphony Orchestra of Danish Radio. Along with Thomas Jensen and Launy Grøndahl, Tuxen pioneered performances and recordings of Carl Nielsen's music. Tuxen was also a prolific film arranger, responsible for the musical direction for many Danish films in the 1930s and 1940s. He was also a jazz bandleader. He gave the British premiere of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony at the 1950 Edinburgh International Festival The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially european classical music, classical music) and ... where it created a sensation. Later that year he premiered the work on disc. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Tuxen
Fanny Tuxen née Seemann (1832–1906) was a Danish writer who initially used the pen name Eva. In connection with her daughter's wedding in 1880, she wrote ''Til Bruden fra en Sølvbrud'' (To the Bride from a Silver Wedding Bride), expressing her views on how to develop a good Christian home. But she first became really successful in 1866, when she published some of the stories she had told her young daughter as ''En moders fortællinger for små børn'' (A Mother's Tales for Small Children). She continued writing short stories for small children, publishing several collections until the mid-1890s. In parallel, she wrote equally successful novels for teenage girls which emphasized the virtues of family life. The last of these, ''Den anden Hustru'' (The Second Wife), was published in 1895. Thanks to her clear writing style and stories which always ended happily, Tuxen remained popular for many years. Biography Born on 9 June 1832 in Copenhagen, Fanny Seemann was the daughter of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Tuxen
Helle Tuxen is a Norwegian people, Norwegian Diving (sport), diver. Together with her sister Anne Vilde Tuxen, she competes in the 3m synchronized diving event, and took silver in the FINA 2016 Diving Grand Prix in Madrid. References Living people 2001 births Norwegian female divers Divers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Norwegian women European Games competitors for Norway Divers at the 2023 European Games {{Norway-Diving-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurits Tuxen
Laurits Regner Tuxen (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Biography Lauritz Regner Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Nicolai Elias Tuxen (1810–1891) and Bertha Laura Giødvad (1815–1908). His father was a naval officer and director of the Danish naval shipyard (''Orlogsværftet''). The still life-and flowerpainter Nicoline Tuxen (1847–1931) was his older sister. From 1868 to 1872, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art together with Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909). He studied in the Paris studio of Léon Bonnat during 1875–1876 and again from 1877 to 1878. He first visited Skagen in 1870, returning on several occasions. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicoline Tuxen
Bertha Nicoline Tuxen (14 November 1847 – 5 April 1931) was a Danish painter of still lifes, flowers, and portraits. Life Nicoline Tuxen was a daughter of the naval officer and director of the Orlogsværftet Nicolai Elias Tuxen (1810-1891) and his wife Bertha Laura Giødvad (1815-1908). Her younger brother was the sculptor and painter Laurits Tuxen. Since women were not allowed to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts before 1888, she took lessons with Vilhelm Kyhn at his private drawing school for women (Tegneskolen for Kvinder), which existed between 1865 and 1895. Several study trips led her later to Paris. In 1891 she was awarded the Neuhausen Prize (De Neuhausenske Præmier) and in 1893 with a scholarship from the Royal Academy. Nicoline Tuxen was regularly represented at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition (Forårsudstilling) in Copenhagen from the middle of the 1880s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxil Tuxen
Saxil Tuxen (1885–1975) was an influential surveyor and town planner in Melbourne, Australia, during the interwar periods. Tuxen was born in Kew, Victoria, on 11 December 1885. Surveying and town planning career Tuxen worked for his Danish-born father's surveying firm in Melbourne, during the first decade of the twentieth century. After the death of his father in 1913, Saxil took over the surveying practice. The firm had forty years experience in the sub division of suburban land throughout Melbourne. Tuxen drew on this experience and developed an awareness of the intrinsic relationship between surveying and town planning. Tuxen "enjoyed success with conventional forms of design but he was also open to persuasion" and new ideas. His differing approaches to design and planning are evident in his 1914 "right-angled subdivision design in Bittern, Victoria". The Bittern design was based on a grid system plan. In contrast, his design for the 'Hill Top' development in Mont Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
