Background
Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P. S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters.
Tuxen grew up in Copenhagen and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where together with P. S. Krøyer he was considered to be one of the best painters.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He first visited Skagen in 1870, returning on several occasions.
In the 1880s and 1890s, he travelled widely painting portraits for Europe"s royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty.
In 1914 he made a study trip to Greece to paint the entry of George I of Greece into Salonika, for the Christian castle. He made lively and well-characterized portraits, among them his self-portrait in the Uffizi in Florence, and portraits of Philisophy South. Krøyer, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
He also made portraits in sculpture, including a portrait group of Krøyer and Michael Ancher. Tuxen went on to paint a number of landscapes in and around Skagen, but also completed a number of paintings of his family, friends and garden flowers.
Tuxen painted mainly landscapes in Skagen, but also portraits of European royal personalities, namely Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria, Czar Nicolas II, et cetera
Some of his works are exhibited at: The Hermitage in Saint St. Petersburg. The royal collection of England in London. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
Skagens Museum in Skagen, Denmark. In 2014, Skagens Museum held the first major exhibition of Tuxen"s works for 25 years titled "Farver, friluft og fyrster" (Colour, Countryside and Crown).