Soren Lund
(1852 - 1933)
"Soren Jorgensen Lund, 1852-1933, painter. Born Dec. 12,
1852 in Home at Faaborg; died Feb, 13, 1833 at Frederiksberg, Buried in
Copenhagen (Vestre Church Yard). Parents: Farmer and parish bailiff
Jorgen Sorensen and Anne Hansdatter. Married 1st time May 12, 1881 in
Copenhagen to Marie Jensine (Signe) Jeppesen, born Oct. 31, l846 in
Copenhagen; died Oct. 26, 1882 in Horne, daughter of Niels Peter J. and
Maren Kristine Jorgensen. Married 2nd time Oct. 30, 1891 at
Frederiksberg to Ane Cathrine Elisabeth Lindberg, born July 31, 1870 in
Gentofte, died Sept. 10, 1895 in Kerteminde, daughter of theologian,
editor, later minister for a free congretation in Kerteminde Niels Lund
and Clara Catherine Monrad. Education: Apprentice painter at Syrak
Hansen's Faborg; graduated from Technical School; attended the Academy
Oct. 1874 to April 1882 with a few intervals (teacher Jorgen Reed);
Tuxen's Art School winter 1882-83. Scholarships: K.A. Larssen 1904;
N.P. Mols 1929, Trips: 1891 Holland, Belgium, France; 1904 Italy.
Exhibitions: Charlottenborg 1879-1933 (54 times with 176 works);
Goteborg 1881; 18th Nov. Exh.: 1882, 1919, 42; Nord. Exh. 1888; Paris
1889; Kleis' Fall Exh. 1892; Chicago 1893; Artists' Fall 19O4, 07-11,
22, 29; Aarhus Exh. 1909; Grafic Artists Society 1912 (Artists' Asso.),
17,18 (Aarhus), 18; Dyrehaven's Painters 1913, 16-33; Malmo 1914; Forum
1929; Sept. Exh. 1912, 35. Assignment: Teacher at Tech. Sch. from 1889.
Works: The Pigs on the Dunghill (1885, earlier Joh. Hansen's
Collection); Sowing (1885); Village (1887); Mare and
Colt (1903) (all 3 at Faaborg Museum); The Maiden Field, Thune
(1886) and Seascape (both at Fyn's Stiftsmuseum); View at
Lyo Beach (1883 Aalborg Museum, deposited at Ryesgade School); Fallow
Deer on the Eremitage Meadow (1920 Aabenraa Museum); Cows in
the Field, Stendet Farm (1924, Kolding Museum). Sketches and
Lithographs in the Kobstad's Collection; has illustrated Svend Fleuron:
Calf and Dyrehaven (1912-13). Soren Lund was personally close
to the Fynbo Circle - especially Peter Hansen felt indebted to him -
but shows in his painting no special connection to Lund's strong and
exhuberant naturalism. He was drier and more careful in his mode of
expression, studied the form and values like he had been taught at the
Academy. His depiction of animals, especially horses is marked by care,
and "in all modesty he carried on the traditions of Lundbye in his
animal paintings" (F. Syberg). In the landscapes he often finds
expressions of genuine, sometimes somewhat melancholic feeling of
nature. He etched a numhor of prints in which he sometimes in a
symbolic manner wove in reflections of Death as the great liberator
(The Old Nag and Death)." H.M.
REF: Sig. Miller: The Pictorial Art of the Nordic Countries, 1905; Faaborg Museum Cat., 1st ed, 1910; Politiken Nov. 12th, 1912 (N. Lutzhoft); Nat.-Times May 5th, 1916 (Th. Faaborg); Ekstrabl. Dec 12, 1932 (Int.); Berl. Tid., Feb. 14, 1933 (K. Flor); Roskilde Avis Febr. 17, 1933; Auction Cat. Sept. 1933, 7-20 (Biography); Peter Hertz: L.A. Ring, 1934, 39-41, 131, 138; Herm. Madsen: Den Fynske Malerkunst (The Fine Art of Painting), 1935; Fritz Syberg: De Unge Aar (The Young Years), 1943, 37-42.