Christian Holm

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Wilhelm Bendz : Portrait Carl Holm
Carl Holm: Sendlinger Tor (1840)

Christian Frederik Carl Holm (born February 18, 1804 in Copenhagen , † July 24, 1846 in Tivoli ) was a Danish painter and etcher.

Life

Holm was the son of a goldsmith and first learned this craft. In 1819 he became a student at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen , where he studied with the portrait painter Wilhelm Bendz , who portrayed him (as well as other painters of his time). Under the influence of the engraver Johann Friderich Clemens , he turned to copperplate engraving and learned to etch. In 1825 he received the academy's small silver medal for a drawing. He became a pupil of the battle painter Christian David Gebauer , but then changed from battle and history painter to animal painter. In 1830/1831 Holm received grants for trips to Dresden and Munich. In 1833 he traveled to Scandinavia and was again in Munich in 1834. He did not return to Copenhagen from there, but traveled several times to Italy, where he also died. He was regularly represented at the art exhibitions of the academy in Charlottenborg Palace and his pictures were bought by the Danish court under King Christian VIII .

family

From 1832 Holm was married to the graphic artist in Rosalie Holm (born Petit 1807–1873), with whom he moved to Munich in 1834. She was the daughter of the Copenhagen accountant Charles Matheus Philip Petit (1776–1823), who worked for the Brandassurance-Compagni (Kongelige Brand) , and his wife Sophie Cathrine nee. Fiedler (1788-1881). Friedrich Carl Petit gen. Fritz (1809-1854), a childhood friend and later translator of the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen , and the later Lübeck merchant Charles Petit were their younger brothers.

Two portraits of his in-laws by the teacher of his college friend Wilhelm Bendz, the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in 1816 and 1819, were sold in the Copenhagen art market in 2016.

  • Charles Petit Sr. (1816)

  • Sophie Catharine Petit (1819)

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Frederik Carl Holm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosalie Petit (g. Holm) andersen.sdu.dk.
  2. ^ Catalog Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art: No. 865/9: “ CW Eckersberg: Portrait of Charles Petit and Catherine Sophie Fiedler. 1816 and 1819. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 52 × 60 cm each. ”
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm, Christian Frederik Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1846
Place of death Tivoli