Carl Bloch

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Carl Heinrich Bloch (born May 23, 1834 in Copenhagen , † February 22, 1890 there ) was a Danish painter .

Life

Bloch was initially supposed to become a seaman, but early on revealed an excellent ability to paint and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in his native city from 1849 . From 1854 to 1859 he created a series of partly serious, partly idyllic and humorous genre pictures from Danish folk life ( a fishing family awaiting the return of the men when a thunderstorm breaks out, Sunday afternoon, the little potato eaters, etc.).

From summer 1859 to autumn 1865 he lived in Rome and traveled from there to Italy , where he painted genre pictures of a related direction from Italian folk life, among which a fisherman mending nets in Sorrento stands out . Even during the last days of his stay in Rome Bloch turned with his great composition Samson at the mill with the Philistines to the (1863) history specialist to. The following year he completed The Raising of Jairus' Daughter . Both paintings met with great acclaim in the artist's homeland and were purchased for the National Gallery at Christiansborg Palace .

He achieved even greater fame in 1865 for the colossal painting The Liberation of Prometheus executed for the royal castle in Athens . Bloch was then elected a member of the academy and at the same time received an order from a wealthy private citizen to paint 22 New Testament subjects for the prayer chamber of Frederiksborg Castle, which was restored after the fire . Most of them were already completed. The Annunciation , Mary's visit to Elisabeth , The wedding of Cana are full of deep, genuinely religious sentiments.

From 1865 Bloch lived again in Copenhagen, where he made the acquaintance of the young poet Holger Drachmann . Bloch painted several large historical pictures ( Noels Ebbesen and Count Gerhard , Christian II as a prisoner at Sønderborg Castle , Simson and Delila , the latter destroyed in the fire at Christiansborg Palace in 1884).

He also created a number of Roman and Danish genre paintings ( The chicken chatter monk , Road Barbier , The disturbed nap , the maid at the kitchen stove , The fisherman boy , the old inn guest etc.) and some altarpieces, of which the Resurrection of Christ (Church of St. James in Copenhagen) the most significant is. While his genre paintings are characterized very vividly, his religious paintings suffer stylistically from the rigidity of the forms.

Carl Bloch died in his hometown at the age of 55 and was buried on Holmens Kirkegård .

annotation

The whereabouts of the paintings or collections refer to the year 1889.

Web links

Commons : Carl Bloch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 93
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Carl Bloch
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloch, Carl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1890
Place of death Copenhagen