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Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922) was a Norwegian-Danish sculptor. [1]
Stephan Abel Sinding was born in Trondhjem as a son of mining engineer Matthias Wilhelm Sinding (1811–1860) and Cecilie Marie Mejdell (1817–86). Sinding was the brother of the composer Christian Sinding and artist Otto Ludvig Sinding. He was a nephew of Nicolai Mejdell (1822–1899) and Thorvald Mejdell (1824–1908),[2] and through the former a first cousin of Glør Thorvald Mejdell, who married Stephan's sister Thora Cathrine Sinding.[3] Stephan Sinding was also a first cousin of Alfred Sinding-Larsen and the three siblings Ernst Anton Henrik Sinding, Elisabeth Sinding (1846–1930) and Gustav Adolf Sinding (1849–1925).[2] In May 1885 in Frederiksberg he married actress Anna Elga Augusta Betzonich (1859–1936).[2] [4] Career Sinding broke off his law studies in Christiania in order to take drawing and modeling lessons first in Norway at the Royal School of Drawing in Christiania under the direction of sculptor Julius Middelthun (1820- 1886). Later he was taught sculpting by sculptor Albert Wolff (1814–1892) in Berlin. Sinding spent his adult life working in different places mostly Rome, Copenhagen, and finally Paris. [5] Sinding picked up influences from the newest and most modern French sculptures of his times among others Auguste Rodin and Paul Dubois. Sinding was at first met with poor recognition from the Norwegian public since his style was considered too modern. He found Copenhagen a better working place and obtained Danish citizenship in 1890. Denmark by that time was still under great artistic influence by the late Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose neo-Greek/neo-classical sculptures were still considered to be the art as it should be. Nevertheless he found recognition and support from brewer Carl Jacobsen, who was the son and heir of Jacob Christian Jacobsen founder of Carlsberg Brewery) who had an interest for sculptures. Carl Jacobsen bought his first Sinding sculpture En barbarkvinde bærer sin dræbte søn bort fra slaget in 1883 adding it to his ever growing collection in his private Glyptothek. Later transformed into the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, it still holds the largest collection in the world of Sinding sculptures.[6] Sinding created a number of sculptures, among others Fangen Moder (awarded Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle (1889), To Mennesker (1889), and Ung kvinde med sin mands lig/ Enken (1892). Many of the Sindings sculptures are credited to realism but together with Danish sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen among others, are though by many considered much more in the style of Symbolism. An example of his symbolism work is his sculpture Valkyrjen, a bronze copy currently displayed at the Churchill Park in central Copenhagen. Sinding became a titular professor and taught private students in Copenhagen but settled in Paris in 1910, where he worked until his death. Assisted by Franz von Jessen, Sinding wrote an autobiography entitled En Billedhuggers Liv (1921). He died in January 1922 in Paris, and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.[2] Selected works * Vølund smed, 1873 References 1. ^ Stephan Sinding (Store norske leksikon)
* Grappe, Georges Stephan Sinding (Paris: Librairie Artistique Internationale. 1920) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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