Jens Thiis

Jens Thiis

Jens Thiis (1870–1942) was a Norwegian art historian, conservator and a prominent museum director. He was conservator at Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (Museum of Arts and Crafts) in Trondheim 1895 and director at Nasjonalgalleriet (The National Gallery) in Oslo 1908–1941.

He was unusual alert to tendencies of his time. When at Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim he engaged in 1907 Henry van de Velde, now considered one of the foremost style formers in his time, to design a room and all its furniture and furnishings in the museum to display an Art Nouveau interior.

He was awarded honorary citizenship of Firenze for his works on Florentine Renaissance.

The Henry van de Velde-room is unique in its kind being specially designed for this purpose. It has later been recreated in the premises of the new Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum.

When director, he bought French contemporary art, Monet among others, and thus made a solid base for the French collection in Nasjonalgalleriet, today being one of its main attractions.

He is the father of Ragna Stang and Helge Thiis.

Authorship

*"Norske malere og billedhuggere", 3 vol., 1904–07
*"Monografi om Gerhard Munthe", 1904
*"Norske malere og billedhuggere": en fremstilling af norsk billedkunsts historie i det 19. årh. med oversikter over samtidig fremmed kunst.
**Vol. 1. Malerkunsten i de første 80 år. Bergen, Norway, 1904-07
**Vol. 2. Fransk malerkunst. Norske kunstforhold. Norsk malerkunst i de sidste 25 år. Bergen, 1904-07.
**Vol. 3. Billedhuggerne. Bergen, 1904-07.
*"Leonardo da Vinci": I. Florentinertiden; Leonardo og Verrocchio; Helligtrekonger. Kra. 1909.
*"Norsk malerkunst i Nationalgalleriet": halvhundrede gjengivelser av norske maleres arbeider. Mittet, 1912. - 32 p., 59 bl.
*"Fransk aand og kunst".
**Vol. 1. Fra gotik til klassicisme 1917.
**Vol. 2. Barok og klassicisme 1917.
*"Betragtninger og karakteristiker av moderne fransk maleri, nærmest i anledning av Kölnerutstillingen", Grieg, 1912. - 56 p.
* "Scandinavian Art", Carl Laurin, Emil Hannover, Jens Thiis; American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1922.
*"Nordisk kunst idag" 1923.
*"Leonardo da Vinci I". Florinertiden 1909.
*"Fransk ånd og kunst", 4 vol. 1917–1939.
*"Edvard Munch og hans samtid", 1933.
*"Gotikkens tidsalder": de franske katedraler. Oslo , 1961 . - 30 p.
*"Leonardo da Vinci" Ny utg. med tillegg av senere studier ved Ragna Thiis og Nic. Stang Oslo: Gyldendal , 1949 . - XXVI s., 1 bl., 322 p.
*"Essays", editor Øistein Parmann. Oslo : Dreyer , 1991. - 219 p.
*"En ukjent norsk kunstsamling": J.W. Hansteens samling. Oslo: Gyldendal , 1941 . - 50 p.
*"Pisanello": ungrenessansens grunnleggelse. Oslo: Gyldendal , 1941 . - 3 bl. (incl. frontb.), 107 p.
*"Renoir": den franske kvinnes maler. Oslo: Gyldendal , 1940. - 4 bl., 172 p.
*"Kunst, gammel og ny". Oslo : Gyldendal , 1937 . - 223 p.
*"Fra Nilen til Seinen" : samlede avhandlinger om fremmed kunst. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1936 . - 211 p.
*"Edvard Munch" og hans samtid: slekten, livet og kunsten, geniet. Oslo: Gyldendal , 1933. - 3 bl.+330 p.
*"Norges billedkunst siden 1814". Medvirkende Grevenor, Henrik Langaard, Johan Henrik. Oslo : Stenersen, 1933. - 95 p.
*"Norges billedkunst siden 1814". Jens Thiis, H. T. Grevenor, Johan H. Langaard. 1933. 95 pages, illustrated. Universitetets radioforedrag. Jens Thiis: "Johan Christian Dahl", "Edvard Munch". Henrik Grevenor:"80-årene i norsk malerkunst". Johan Langaard: "Norsk malerkunst efter 1900".

Biographies

Mæhle, Ole (1970) "Jens Thiis, En kunstens forkjemper", Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo. 357 pages.


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