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No. 305 (August 1918)
DOI Artikel:The paintings of the late Niels M. Lund
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0077
The Paintings of Niels M. Lund
THE PAINTINGS OF THE LATE picturesque obviousness would be dispelled by
NIEI S M LUND ^le discovery °* justifying qualities of true
painters' vision and expressive art. There was
WHEN, a couple of years ago, it never any suggestion of artistic cheapness in the
became known that Niels Lund, distinction which won for his landscapes, with
in the prime and vigour of life, their virile thoroughness of painting, draughts-
had died suddenly of heart- manship, and composition, prominence and
failure, the news was received with a shock of favour in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy
widespread regret. It was felt poignantly that and the Salon.
there had gone from us a man of engaging Niels Moller Lund was regarded always as a
personality, sympathetic nature, and sincerity Newcastle man, and there, in the city on the
of character, and a painter of attractive and Tyne, the nobler pictorial aspects of which he
distinguished quality, from whom much was had recorded in more than one notable canvas,
still to be expected in the revelation of pictorial they showed their local pride in his achievement
beauty. With his unassuming gentle manner by a memorial exhibition of his pictures at the
and his genial vein of quiet, humour, Lund struck Laing Art Gallery. But he was really a Dane,
one at first meeting as a thoroughly likeable Faaborg, in Funen, was his birthplace, and by
fellow, but one could. not help feeling that the the waters of the Little Belt he passed the first
deeper essentials of genuine comradeship were four years of his childhood. Then his father
there for the easy finding. So with his art. came over to England and started business as
If his pictures had that about thern of pictorial a shipping agent at Newcastle, which thus
attractiveness which airested the eye with a became the place of the boy's bringing-up.
ready sense of admiration, any distrust of On leaving school he went into his father's office,
"chepstow castle"
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by niels m. lund
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THE PAINTINGS OF THE LATE picturesque obviousness would be dispelled by
NIEI S M LUND ^le discovery °* justifying qualities of true
painters' vision and expressive art. There was
WHEN, a couple of years ago, it never any suggestion of artistic cheapness in the
became known that Niels Lund, distinction which won for his landscapes, with
in the prime and vigour of life, their virile thoroughness of painting, draughts-
had died suddenly of heart- manship, and composition, prominence and
failure, the news was received with a shock of favour in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy
widespread regret. It was felt poignantly that and the Salon.
there had gone from us a man of engaging Niels Moller Lund was regarded always as a
personality, sympathetic nature, and sincerity Newcastle man, and there, in the city on the
of character, and a painter of attractive and Tyne, the nobler pictorial aspects of which he
distinguished quality, from whom much was had recorded in more than one notable canvas,
still to be expected in the revelation of pictorial they showed their local pride in his achievement
beauty. With his unassuming gentle manner by a memorial exhibition of his pictures at the
and his genial vein of quiet, humour, Lund struck Laing Art Gallery. But he was really a Dane,
one at first meeting as a thoroughly likeable Faaborg, in Funen, was his birthplace, and by
fellow, but one could. not help feeling that the the waters of the Little Belt he passed the first
deeper essentials of genuine comradeship were four years of his childhood. Then his father
there for the easy finding. So with his art. came over to England and started business as
If his pictures had that about thern of pictorial a shipping agent at Newcastle, which thus
attractiveness which airested the eye with a became the place of the boy's bringing-up.
ready sense of admiration, any distrust of On leaving school he went into his father's office,
"chepstow castle"
LXXIV No. 305.—August 1918
by niels m. lund
71