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Pietro (Peter) Thyge Boyesen (1819–1882) was a
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/ref> He died in Rome on 26 June 1882 and is buried in the non-catholic cemetery.
File:Johan Friderich Bergsøe 1868 by Pietro Boyesen.jpg, Johan Friderich Bergsøe, Danish artist (1868)
File:Boyesen Italian women with basket.png, Italian woman with a basket on her head (before 1872)
File:Harald Jerichau 1869 af Pietro Boyesen.jpg, Harald Jerichau, Danish artist (1869)
File:Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann with her son Harald Jerichau and Pietro Krohn c. 1873 by Pietro Boyesen.jpg,
Musée d'Orsay
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyesen, Pietro 1819 births 1882 deaths 19th-century Danish photographers Portrait photographers Danish expatriates in Italy Pioneers of photography Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome
Pietro (Peter) Thyge Boyesen (1819–1882) was a Danish
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photographer who spent most of his professional life in Rome
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.Marie-Louise Berner, "Pietro Boyesen", in: Sys Hartmann (editor), ''Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon'', København: Rosinante 1994-2000. Onlinhere
/ref> He is remembered in particular for his portraits of Scandinavians visiting Rome, many of which are now in the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
Early life
Boyesen was born inCopenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
in 1819 or 1820. His parents were Peter Thyge Boyesen, a wholesaler, and Maria Christine Lange. After training as a painter's apprentice, he went to Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
in 1845 together with his colleague Theodor Meldahl, a brother of the architect Ferdinand Meldahl
Ferdinand Meldahl (16 March 1827 – 3 February 1908) was a Danish architect best known for the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Castle after the fire in 1859. Meldahl was one of the leading proponents of historicism in Denmark.
Biography
He was ...
. Here he stayed for 10 years, working as a photographer before leaving for Rome where he spent the rest of his life.
Years in Rome
Always modest and reserved, he usually photographed outdoor scenes, genre pictures or portraits which he sold to artists and tourists. Frederik G. Knudtzon, who wrote one of the most interesting accounts of life among the Scandinavians in Rome in the 19th century, spoke of "the Danish photographer Pietro Boyesen, who was rarely seen, because he was always busy." Boyesen was later able to supplement his income by working as a clerk for the German embassy. He took photographs of animals and plants, as well as pictures depicting the lives of ordinary Italians. Many of his photographs arecarte de visite
The ''carte de visite'' (, visiting card), abbreviated CdV, was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero. Each photograph was the size o ...
shots of Scandinavians visiting Rome, taken in the yard outside his studio door. Over the door frame, the word "Roma" can be seen, sometimes with the year when the photograph was taken, and on either side of the door there are various flowers, some in pots.
Boyesen had a talent for composition and characterization. In contrast to the staid studio portraits which were so common at the time, Boyesen would have his subjects pose outdoors in intimate Roman settings. By playing with the subjects' clothes and their relationship to the surroundings, Boyesen would produce works presenting a somewhat timid but intimate charm."Peter (Pietro) Thyge Boyesen (1819–1882) Fotograf" in Inge-Lise og Steen Neergaard, "Vi kom fra Danmark", Books on Demand Gmbh, Copenhagen. . Online acceshere
/ref> He died in Rome on 26 June 1882 and is buried in the non-catholic cemetery.
Gallery
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann (21 November 1819 – 11 July 1881) was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.
Early life and career
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was born in Żoliborz (Fr ...
with her son Harald Jerichau and Pietro Krohn
Pietro Købke Krohn (23 January 1840 – 15 October 1905) was a Danish painter, illustrator, theatre director and museum director.
He is remembered above all for his work together with Otto Haslund, illustrating Johan Krohn's book ''Peters Jul ...
c. 1873 by Pietro Boyesen
See also
*Photography in Denmark
In Denmark, photography has developed from strong participation and interest in the very history of photography, beginnings of the art in 1839 to the success of a considerable number of Danes in the world of photography today.
Pioneers Mads Alst ...
References
External links
Musée d'Orsay
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