Fredrik Ludvig Andreas Vibe Aubert (28 January 1851 – 10 May 1913) was a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

art educator,

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and art critic.

Biography

Andreas Aubert was the son of

Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert (30 March 1807 – 14 June 1887) was a Norwegian philologist. Biography Aubert was born in Christianssand (now Kristiansand), Norway. He was the son of Benoni Aubert (1768–1832) and Jakobine Henriette Thaulow (1776� ...

(1807-1877) who was a classical scholar and professor of philology at the

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. His elder brother

Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert Ludvig Mariboe Benjamin Aubert (22 November 1838 – 5 February 1896) was a Norwegian professor, jurist and government official. Biography Aubert was born at Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of professor Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aube ...

(1838-1896) was a jurist and professor. His sister-in-law was novelist

Elise Aubert Elise Aubert (8 February 1837 – 30 November 1909) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and non-fiction writer. Biography Elise Sofie Aars was born at Lier in Buskerud, Norway. She was the daughter of priest and politician Nils Fre ...

(1837- 1909). He was married to Martha Johanne Védastine Moe (1855–1933), becoming the son-in-law of Bishop

Jørgen Moe Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (22 April 1813–27 March 1882) was a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, poet, and author. He is best known for the ''Norske Folkeeventyr'', a collection of Norwegian folk tales which he edited in collaboration with Peter ...

(1813-1882) and brother-in-law of writer

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(1859-1913). Andreas Aubert was a student at

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(1869–71), before he began to study theology. He studied theology

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(1877) and then worked as a teacher at Aars og Voss' skole (1878–1895). He was also employed as an art critic at ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Andreas Aubert wrote extensively about Norwegian artist,

Johan Christian Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish-Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and, by some ...

starting with an autobiography titled ''Professor Dahl. Et stykke af Aarhundredets Kunst- og Kulturhistorie'' in 1893. As an art historian, his major works were the fundamental studies of the art of

which won him an annual government scholarship in 1895 and ended his teaching career. He became a professional art historian, critic and researcher. Aubert also championed

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, and

Vilhelm Hammershøi Vilhelm Hammershøi (), often anglicised as Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 186413 February 1916), was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.Souren Melikian,Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set ...

. He described them as "

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s", by which he meant that their art was oriented toward the psychological. He had an important role in restoring the legacy of the German Romantic painter

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...

, now considered the leading artist of that period, toward the end of the 19th century.

Selected works

*''Professor Dahl. Et stykke af Aarhundredets Kunst- og Kulturhistorie'' (1893) *''Den Norske Naturfølelse og Professor Dahl. Hans Kunst og dens Stilling i Aarhundredets Utvikling'' (1894) *''Thomas Fearnley. En biografisk skisse'' (1903) *''Runge und die Romantik'', Berlin 1909 (no. ed. ''Runge og romantikken'', 1911). *''Caspar David Friedrich. Gott, Freiheit, Vaterland'', aus dem Nachlass des Verfassers hrsg. von G. J. Kern, Berlin 1915. *''Norsk kultur og norsk kunst'' with C. W. Schnitler, (1917) *''Maleren Johan Christian Dahl. Et stykke av forrige aarhundres kunst- og kulturhistorie'' (1920)

References

Other sources

* Mosley, Philip. ''Rodenbach, Georges: Critical Essays''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996, p. 158 (note 33). .

External links

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