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Tycho Christoffer Jæger (25 June 1819 – 31 January 1889) was a Norwegian painter.
Tycho Christoffer Jæger (25 June 1819 – 31 January 1889) was a Norwegian painter.
Biography
Tycho Christoffer Jæger was born inBergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
as a son of the first cousins, shoemaker Tycho Christoffer Jæger and Øllegaard Jæger. He was an uncle of Henrik Jæger
Henrik Jæger (4 January 1854 – 17 December 1895) was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic and playwright.
He was born in Bergen as a son of sailmaker Herman Jæger (1824–1871) and Birgitte Pedersen. He was a nephew of Tycho ...
. From September 1870 he was married to Bergithe Steendahl (1850–1932).
He painted between 1841 and 1889, almost exclusively landscapes
A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionar ...
. He studied partly in Copenhagen
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 the 1840s. He also travelled in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and lived in Bergen and Leikanger
Leikanger () is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center was the village of Hermansverk, which also was the ...
after taking his education. ''Norsk biografisk leksikon
is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia.
The first edition (NBL1) was issued between 1921 and 1983, including 19 volumes and 5,100 articles. It was published by Aschehoug with economic support from the state.
bought the rights to ...
'' called two of his paintings "among the most peculiar to be created in contemporary Norwegian art".
References
1819 births 1889 deaths Artists from Bergen 19th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian expatriates in Denmark Norwegian male painters 19th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub