page_title: Julius Exner
section_title: His later years
hierarchical_section_title: Julius Exner / Life / His later years
context_page_description: Johan Julius Exner, Danish genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter. Exner originally intended on becoming a history painter, but quickly found his niche, however, in genre painting, the most popular and lucrative painting style of his era. His genre paintings figured prominently in Denmark's National Romantic period, an artistic period directly after the Golden Age of Danish Painting, when artistic focus was turned inwards to uniquely Danish themes.
context_section_description: Starting in the late 1870s Exner began painting themes from Fanø, a Danish island in the North Sea off the west coast of Jutland, the Danish mainland. He came to the island for the first time in 1877. He and his family spent the summers there annually for many years to come. He had a studio at Sønderho Kro. There he found a group of people whose lives interested him deeply, a folk who were fast becoming extinguished in the social changes of that time. These themes made excellent subjects for his painting until his death.
  His work was exhibited at the world exhibition in Paris in 1878.
  He received a Treschow award in 1887. He became a member of the Exhibition Committee at Charlottenborg in 1879, and was named head of the committee in 1890. He served in this capacity five years. He was a member of the School Council (Skolerådet) between 1883–1905, was Treasurer from 1884, and member of the Academy Council (Akademirådet) from 1887.
  He painted several self-portraits in his final years, one in 1906 and one in 1910. He died on 15 November 1910 in Copenhagen two weeks shy of his 85th birthday. He is buried in Holmen's Cemetery in central Copenhagen.
  He exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition annually from 1844 until his death in 1910, with few exceptions.
caption: Julius Exner, Self-Portrait, the Artist’s Last Work, 1910, Loeb Danish Art Collection
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