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Viggo Julius Rorup

Viggo Julius Rorup (1903 - 1971) was active/lived in Denmark, France.  Viggo Rorup is known for Figure and landscape painting, impressionism and pointillism.

Viggo Julius Rørup (12 September 1903 – 14 January 1971) was a Danish artist who in the early 1930s joined the artists' colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters.

Born in Kalundborg, Rørup studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Ejnar Nielsen and Sigurd Wandel, graduating in 1930. He debuted in 1928 at the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (Artists' Autumn Exhibition). In 1927, he moved into a house in Kårup Bakker in Odsherred[2] as one of the first to join Karl Bovin and Kaj Ejstrup in the group of artists known as the Odsherred Painters.
In 1937, he married the artist Ellen Krause who also became a member of the artists' colony. Until 1940, he was mainly a figure painter but he then extended his scope to landscapes. His early paintings are rather dark but after spending some time in France studying the works of the Impressionists, his palette became brighter and his colours more intense, forming a webbing of light   ...  [Displaying 973 of 1824 characters.]  Artist bio

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