Bertha Nicoline Tuxen (14 November 1847 – 5 April 1931) was a

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painter of

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s, flowers, and

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Life

Nicoline Tuxen was a daughter of the naval officer and director of the

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Nicolai Elias Tuxen (1810-1891) and his wife Bertha Laura Giødvad (1815-1908). Her younger brother was the sculptor and painter

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 ...

. Since women were not allowed to study at the

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before 1888, she took lessons with

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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

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(Forårsudstilling) in Copenhagen from the middle of the 1880s.''Tuxen, Nicoline.''
In: ''

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'' Further exhibitions with her participation were, for example, the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois., an exhibition in

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1894 and the "Nordische Kunstausstellung"

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1895. She mainly painted flower pictures and still life, in later years also portraits. Their works bear the unmistakable stamp of the

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of painting. Nicoline Tuxen remained unmarried, she died in Frederiksberg at the age of 83 and was buried at the

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in Copenhagen.

Gallery

Nicoline Tuxen - An old cottage in Østofte.jpg, Nicoline Tuxen ''An old cottage in Østofte'' Nicoline Tuxen - Still life with branches in bloom.jpg, Nicoline Tuxen ''Still life with branches in bloom'' Nicoline Tuxen - Flowers, 1886.jpg, Nicoline Tuxen ''Flowers'', 1886 Nicoline Tuxen - Portrait of a woman reading in bed.jpg, Nicoline Tuxen ''Portrait of a woman reading in bed''

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Paintings from Nicoline Tuxen
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Genealogy of the Tuxen family
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''Malerier og Studier af Frk. Nicoline Tuxen - udstillede i O.V. Lemmings Lokaler, Bredgade Nr. 28, Fra 17. Februar 1897 til 17. Marts 1897,''
Katalog (in Danish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuxen, Nicoline 1847 births 1931 deaths Artists from Copenhagen 19th-century Danish painters 20th-century Danish painters 19th-century Danish women artists 20th-century Danish women artists 20th-century Danish artists Tuxen family

Life

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