Christian Mølsted

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Christian Mølsted (1890s)

Christian Mølsted (actually: Christian Ferdinand Andreas Mølsted ) (born October 15, 1862 in Dragør ; † May 10, 1930 ibid) was a Danish marine painter .

life and work

Mølsted was the son of the shipbuilder and fisherman Andreas Adolf Nikolaj Mølsted (1839-1893) and his wife Ane Hans-Nielsdatter (1830-1905). He received his first training in Copenhagen in 1879 at the School of the Technical Society ( Det tekniske Selskabs Skole ). In the same year he made a sea voyage on the frigate Jylland to England, Madeira and Russia (St. Petersburg). After his return he began in 1880 to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, which he graduated in 1885 with a diploma. His teachers were u. a. Frederik Vermehren , Jørgen Roed , Julius Exner , Niels Simonsen and Carl Bloch . During this time study trips took him to Paris in 1880 and to London in 1882 .

Mølsted exhibited for the first time in 1884 at the December exhibition in Charlottenborg Palace and was then regularly represented with his works at the spring exhibitions. Mølsted painted motifs of the coast around Copenhagen and Jutland, some with seafarers and fishermen as accessories. He also painted large battle pictures of historical content as well as genre pictures in old age. He was a board member of the artists' association since 1904.

Mølsted was married to Ingine Dorothea (Thea) Svendsen (1862–1948) since October 20, 1891, and the couple had three daughters. Mølsted died in his hometown in 1930, he was buried on Dragør Kirkegård.

In 1974 the painter's studio was opened as a museum in his hometown Dragør, it is part of the Amager Museum and shows a selection of his works of art.

Scholarships, prizes, honors

  • 1889, 1899: Neuhausenske Premium (De Neuhausenske Præmier)
  • 1893, 1896: Raben-Levetzau Prize (The Raben-Levetzauske Fund)
  • 1899–1901: Academic scholarship
  • 1903–1904: Academic scholarship

Works (selection)

  • En engelsk brig conquerors af danske kanonbåde (1887)
  • Skibe i havnen ved Korntørringsmagasinet (1889, Neuhausens Pr.)
  • Stille vejr i Sundet, frigates Jylland (1899, Neuhausens Pr.)
  • Skibsgrisens flight (around 1900)
  • Slaget på Rheden April 2, 1801 Willemoes ombord paa det Gernerske Flaadebatteri (1901), Museum West Funen (Vestfyn), Assens
  • En fiskerbåd i høj sø. Morgen i Drogden (1905), KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
  • On the frigate Niels Juel in the naval battle May 9, 1864 (1898), Det Nationalhistoriske Museum Frederiksborg Slot
  • Willemoes' død under slaget ved Sjællands Odde (1906)
  • Gennembruddet under Slaget paa Køge Bugt July 1, 1677

Picture gallery

  • Frigates Jylland

  • Christianus Qvintus

  • Flåden forlader havnen for sidste gang

  • Dannebroge

  • Ombord på frigates Niels Juel

  • SS Frederik VIII

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Mølsted  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Ferdinand Andreas Mølsted grave site and short biography at Gravsted.dk .
  2. ↑ Dragørs Mølsted Museum ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at Museumamager.dk.
  3. ↑ Figure and description (DK).
  4. ^ Illustration at Kunstindeks Danmark.
  5. ^ Illustration at Kunstindeks Danmark.
personal data
SURNAME Mølsted, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mølsted, Christian Ferdinand Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dragør
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1930
Place of death Dragør