Louise Bonfils

Louise Marie Magdalene Bonfils (3 November 1856 - 28 March 1933) was a Danish painter, best-known for her seascapes despite a serious eye disease.

She was born in Frederiksberg to head-of-office (later director) of the Militære Underklasses Invalideforsørgelsen Carl Josef Julius Bonfils (1814-1901) and Elisabeth Juliane Louise née Soelberg (1815-1884).[2] Her brother, Sophus Carl Emmanuel Bonfils, trained as a bookseller at G.E.C. Gad, owned a bookshop and from 1893 to 1896 was chairman of the Copenhagen Booksellers Association.[3]

According to the official censuses in Copenhagen, Louise Bonfils lived with her father and brothers in her childhood home on Gammel Kongevej until 1901, after which she moved to the Kunstnerhjemmet in Gothersgade.[4] Here she lived next door to another well-known marine painter, Vilhelm Arnesen.[5] She died unmarried in Copenhagen and is buried at Solbjerg Park Cemetery in Frederiksberg.

Training

Works and style

Exhibitions and awards

  • Ships on the Sundet on a summer day, 1878
  • Sailing boats off a rocky coast, 1885
  • Coast, 1887
  • Coast with small boats on the shoreline, 1887
  • Beach in Villingebæk, Nordsjælland, 1887
  • Coast with sailing ships and steamships off Kronborg beach, 1890
  • Coast with house and boats, 1901
  • Coast from Gammel Skagen. Eftermiddag, 1903
  • Evening
    Stavanger Fjord, 1909
  • Showers at Hornbæk, 1921
  • Harbour with two small sailing ships, 1883
  • People in conversation on a sunlit street in Dragør, 1894
  • Boats in Gilleleje harbour, 1927

References

  1. ^ "Det friske hav er atter frisk" hos Den Hirschsprungske Samling, Hirschsprung.dk "Kystparti med fiskere, Ålsgårde med Kullen i baggrunden". 1889 : Billedet konserveret ('atter frisk') : "...Mange kvindelige kunstneres kunstværker fra 1800-tallet er i dårlig stand. Den Hirschsprungske Samling modtog i slutningen af 2020 et særligt tilskud fra Slots- og kulturstyrelsen til at gøre noget ved dette. Maleriet af Louise Bonfils er et af de værker, som er blevet konserveret i denne sammenhæng. Med en nænsom og grundig rensning er de sarte grå og fine turkise farver i værket kommet til deres ret igen. ..."
  2. ^ (in Danish) "Vestjysk Kunstgalleri, Esbjerg (Voigtfineart.dk)".
  3. ^ (in Danish) "Boghandlere i Danmark, (Boghandlereidanmark.dk) entry".
  4. ^ (in Danish) Bech, Inge Lise Mogensen, Lene Bøgh Rønberg, Hirschsprungske Samling, Randers Kunstmuseum, Hirschsprungske Samling, og Randers Kunstmuseum. Kvindernes moderne gennembrud 1880-1910. Kbh: Den Hirschsprungske Samling, 2024.
  5. ^ (in Danish) Berlingske Politiske og Avertissementstidende, Aften, årg. 178, nr. 254, 2. november 1926, 4
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