Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Self-portrait , 1803

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (born January 2, 1783 in Blaukrug near Blans, municipality of Satrup in Sundewitt in the Duchy of Schleswig , † July 22, 1853 in Copenhagen ) was one of the most important Danish painters of the 19th century . As a teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts , he shaped an entire generation of Danish artists.

Life

Eckersberg was initially trained by the master painters Jes Jessen in Aabenraa and Johann Jacob Jessen in Flensburg . In 1800 he received his journeyman's certificate and in 1803 was accepted at the Art Academy in Copenhagen, where he studied history painting with Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, among others, until 1809 . In 1810 he traveled to France and was a student of Jacques-Louis David in Paris from 1811 to 1812 . He then lived in Rome until 1816 . There he belonged to the circle around the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , whom he portrayed in 1814 (further versions 1832, 1838). After his return to Denmark in 1817 he became a member of the Royal Academy, which appointed him professor in 1818, and its director from 1827 to 1829. Then he gave private lessons. During this time u. a. Wilhelm Bendz and Carl Frederik Sørensen his students. Under his leadership, the Academy broke away from rigid conventions and encouraged painting from nature instead of just copying plaster casts of ancient statues, as was previously the only custom. Working in plain air and from 1833 also nude models were allowed. He was married successively to both daughters of the painter Jens Juel . Eckersberg is buried in the assistance cemetery in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen.

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Eckersberg is considered to be the main representative of classical painting of the Danish Golden Age . He took over the precise graphic representation of his teacher Jacques-Louis David, but not his heroic-dramatic image conception. Like the painters of the German Biedermeier era , he moved in the direction of realistic, intimate art, but avoided a romantically exaggerated manner of representation. In addition to emphatically patriotic pictorial themes, he has a lifelong interest in the blatantly erotic female nudes and in marine painting .

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Exhibitions

  • 2016: Eckersberg - Fascination Reality. The golden age of Danish painting. Hamburger Kunsthalle . Catalog.

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literature

Web links

Commons : Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen: Danish Painting of the Golden Age (catalog) . 1st edition. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 1995, p. 94, 116, 118 .
  2. ^ William Hauptman, Peter Nørgaard Larsen: Impressions du Nord - La peinture scandinave 1800-1915 (catalog) . Fondation de l'Hermitage / 5 Continents Éditions, Lausanne / Milano 2005, p. 154 .
  3. ↑ Patricia G. Berman: In another light - Danish painting in the nineteenth century . Thames & Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-23844-8 , pp. 56 .
personal data
SURNAME Eckersberg, Christoffer Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Satrup in Sundewitt
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1853
Place of death Copenhagen