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- Title
Exhibition: Seeing the light.
- Authors
Martin, Colin
- Abstract
This article focuses on Danish artist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, who is best known for his naturalistic paintings, only rarely turning his attention to scientific portraiture. But his 1913 portrait En Fysiker, is a striking, generic depiction of a young physicist. Seated on a stool, he leans forward, hands gripping his splayed knees, observing an experiment on electric-light rays. It provides an intensely physical depiction of the researcher's absorption in his investigation of nature.
- Subjects
PORTRAIT photography; WILLUMSEN, Jens Ferdinand, 1863-1958; ARTISTS; DANISH arts; PAINTING; PHYSICISTS; DANISH artists
- Publication
Nature, 2003, Vol 426, Issue 6965, p387
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/426387a