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Harald Giersing (24 April 1881 - 15 January 1927), a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism movement in Denmark around 1910-1920.〔(Harald Giersing. ) Retrieved 10 December 2008.〕 He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists both for his portraits and landscapes. ==Life and development== Giersing, who died at the early arge of 45, was driven by a desire to concentrate on change and beauty. Unable to find support in religion, he adopted modernism as an existential approach as to how art could fill the void for those without faith in God. While some synergies with the work of Vilhelm Lundstrøm can be detected, he differed from contemporaries such as Niels Larsen Stevns, Sigurd Swane and Edvard Weie in that he sought to represent images just as he had seen them, almost in the form of photographs.〔(English summary of the book GIERSING - Maler. Kritiker. Menneske by Lennart Gottlieb ). Retrieved 10 December 2008.〕 When he arrived in Paris in 1906, he was immediately taken by Gauguin but within a year it was Édouard Manet who became his ideal, soon to be followed by Cézanne and also the neo-impressionist Paul Signac. By 1907, he had begun to show interest in the Fauvists, including Derain, Othon Friesz, Manguin, Marquet and Puy and especially Braque. All this experience helped him to attain his own way of thinking, although he was ever wary of becoming "complete" as he believed it would inhibit his further development as an artist. He soon adopted a heavy, rather rough style with rough colours, partly inspired by Ernst Ludvig Kirchner. His painting (The Judgment of Paris ) (1909) presents three female figures with broad dark blue outlines and rather confusing proportions. After a period during which he concentrated on portraits and on the female figure, from about 1912 he took a special interest in painting forests. He developed a wilder, more spontaneous style using a palette knife rather than brush strokes as can be seen in his (Forest Path Sorø ) (1916), one of his many successful forest works. Open landscapes followed, especially the Furesø pictures from 1918 on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harald Giersing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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