Louise Larsine Brun

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''Gulbrandsen'' (16 December 1830 – 21 January 1866), was a Norwegian actress. She is counted among the most famed and most noted actors in

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in the 19th century.

Biography

She was the daughter of Ole Gulbrandsen Spor and wife Ingeborg Olsdatter England, and grew up at Smørsalmenningen in

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, Norway where her father ran his own beer brewery. She was the elder sister of stage actress and concert singer Birgitte Cornelia Rojahn (1839-1927). Louise Brun debuted on the stage at the Det norske Theater in Bergen. At the opening performance on January 2, 1850, she was selected to play the role of Lucretia in the three-act comedy '' Den vægelsindede'' by

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. In 1851, she married her colleague Johannes Brun (1832–1890), also one of the most noted Norwegian actors of his time. Together with her husband in 1852 she went on a study trip to

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. In 1857, the couple moved to

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, where she was active the remaining years of her career. She was considered to be artistic and with an intelligent apprehension ability. She played both tragedy and comedy, but was most known within the so-called salon-comedies, a popular genre of the period.Louise Brun i Arvid Ahnfelt, Europas konstnärer (1887)

References

External links

Louise Brun i Arvid Ahnfelt, Europas konstnärer (1887)

Other sources

* Brun, 2. Louise i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1905) {{DEFAULTSORT:Brun, Louise 1830 births 19th-century Norwegian actresses Norwegian stage actresses 1866 deaths