{"id":20800,"date":"2021-08-18T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20800"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:45:15","slug":"the-art-of-jens-lund-1871-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/08\/18\/the-art-of-jens-lund-1871-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Jens Lund, 1871\u20131924"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund06.jpg\" alt=\"lund06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sakuntala, 1900.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vejenkunstmuseum.dk\/Dansk\/samlingen\/jenslund\/jlrside.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jens Lund<\/a> was a Danish artist and illustrator with an idiosyncratic drawing style that not only sets him apart from many of his contemporaries but looks forward to the stylisations of younger artists like Beresford Egan. Several of the examples here are illustrations and sketches for an unpublished edition of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s stories and poems. Lund also illustrated Baudelaire&#8217;s <em>Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em>, and <em>Bruges-la-Morte<\/em> by Georges Rodenbach (which he translated into Danish with his wife, Bolette) but copies of these aren&#8217;t as easy to find.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund01.jpg\" alt=\"lund01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Anraabelse, 1906.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund02.jpg\" alt=\"lund02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Scent that sings&#8230; Flames that laugh, 1903\u201304.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund03.jpg\" alt=\"lund03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fantasy Landscape with Palms, 1899.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund04.jpg\" alt=\"lund04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fireball, 1899.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund07.jpg\" alt=\"lund07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mon \u00e2me voltige sur les parfum from Les Fleurs du Mal, 1901.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund08.jpg\" alt=\"lund08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Princess, 1906.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund05.jpg\" alt=\"lund05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Introductory vignette for the Poe illustrations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund09.jpg\" alt=\"lund09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lenore, 1918.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund11.jpg\" alt=\"lund11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Annabel Lee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund12.jpg\" alt=\"lund12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vignettes for The City in the Sea, 1919.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund13.jpg\" alt=\"lund13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vignette for To Helen, 1919.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund14.jpg\" alt=\"lund14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vignettes for Ulalume, 1919.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lund15.jpg\" alt=\"lund15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vignettes for Annabel Lee and Lenore, 1919.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakuntala, 1900. Jens Lund was a Danish artist and illustrator with an idiosyncratic drawing style that not only sets him apart from many of his contemporaries but looks forward to the stylisations of younger artists like Beresford Egan. Several of the examples here are illustrations and sketches for an unpublished edition of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/08\/18\/the-art-of-jens-lund-1871-1924\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Jens Lund, 1871\u20131924&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The art of Jens Lund, 1871\u20131924","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,21,48,44],"tags":[3963,2346,93,10076,11718],"class_list":["post-20800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-painting","tag-beresford-egan","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-georges-rodenbach","tag-jens-lund"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}