Johanna Marie Fosie
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Johanna Marie Fosie was a Danish painter, the first professional native female artist in Denmark.
, in Kunstindustrimuseet and in private collections. In 1757, she gave a still life
oil painting as a gift to the king.
Fosie lived in her parents home until her marriage, where her parents held a salon
for artists, who gathered among others the artists Johan Martin Preisler, Gustav de Lode and Michael Keyl, the painters Johan Hörner
and Carl Gustaf Pilo
, the sculptor Simon Carl Stanley
, the poet Christian Frederik Wadskiær and several other writers, and where she became a celebrated artist in social life and from where she made her drawings and paintings. She was particularly close to Hörner, who painted her with a pencil in her study, illustrating her as the first female artist in Denmark, her brother and later her husband and who seemed to have had an influence in her art. In 1758, she married the vicar Jens Eriksen Westengaard. After her marriage, her activity as an artist lessened, but she did not stop altogether.
Biography
The daughter of Anna Dorothea Ilsøe and the painter Jacob Fosie, who was a teacher in drawing in his home. She learned to paint from him, together with her siblings Michael Fosie and Elisabeth Fosie. Johanna was the most talented, and signed and published illustrations in her fathers drawing book in 1741. Of her drawings, several is preserved in Kobberstiksamlingen, on RosenborgRosenborg
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, in Kunstindustrimuseet and in private collections. In 1757, she gave a still life
Still life
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...
oil painting as a gift to the king.
Fosie lived in her parents home until her marriage, where her parents held a salon
Salon (gathering)
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to...
for artists, who gathered among others the artists Johan Martin Preisler, Gustav de Lode and Michael Keyl, the painters Johan Hörner
Johan Hörner
Johan Hörner was a Swedish-Danish painter.-External links:**...
and Carl Gustaf Pilo
Carl Gustaf Pilo
Carl Gustaf Pilo was a Swedish-born artist and painter, one of many 18th century European artists who had to leave their own country in order to make a living. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ,...
, the sculptor Simon Carl Stanley
Simon Carl Stanley
Simon Carl Stanley was a sculptor and was born of English parents.When he showed as a boy feel like drawing and træskæring, put him apprentice with hofbilledhugger JC Sturmberg...
, the poet Christian Frederik Wadskiær and several other writers, and where she became a celebrated artist in social life and from where she made her drawings and paintings. She was particularly close to Hörner, who painted her with a pencil in her study, illustrating her as the first female artist in Denmark, her brother and later her husband and who seemed to have had an influence in her art. In 1758, she married the vicar Jens Eriksen Westengaard. After her marriage, her activity as an artist lessened, but she did not stop altogether.