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Jens Thiis
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Name
Jens Thiis
Died
1942
Books
Leonardo da Vinci
Children
Ragna Thiis Stang, Helge Thiis
Grandchildren
Tove Stang Dahl, Tone Thiis Schjetne
Jens Thiis (12 May 1870 – 27 June 1942) was a Norwegian art historian, conservator and a prominent museum director. He was conservator at the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (Museum of Arts and Crafts) in Trondheim beginning in 1895 and director of the National Gallery in Oslo from 1908 to 1941.
He was unusually alert to the trends of his time. In 1907, when at the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim, he engaged Henry van de Velde, now considered one of the foremost stylists of his time, to design an Art Nouveau display room and all its furniture and furnishings. The Henry van de Velde Room is unique in its kind, being specially designed for this purpose. It was later recreated on the premises of the new Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum.
As director of the National Gallery he bought French contemporary art (Monet among others) and thus made a solid base for the French collection that is now one of the gallery's main attractions.
He was awarded honorary citizenship of Florence for his works on the Florentine Renaissance.
Thiis was 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.
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.
