Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
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.
plant
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 .
student
- Joel Ballin (1822-1885)
- Wilhelm Bendz (1804-1832)
- Detlev Conrad Blunck (1798-1853)
- Joachim Ludwig Bünsow (1821–1910)
- Carl Dahl (1812-1865)
- Julius Exner (1825-1910)
- Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908)
- Johan Vilhelm Gertner (1818–1871)
- Louis Gurlitt (1812-1897)
- Constantin Hansen (1804-1880)
- Frederik Christian Kiærskou (1805-1891)
- Christen Købke (1810–1848)
- Johann August Krafft (1798–1829)
- Albert Küchler (1803-1886)
- Vilhelm Kyhn (1819–1903)
- Vilhelm Marstrand (1810–1873)
- Anton Melbye (1818–1875)
- Ernst Meyer (1797–1861)
- Jørgen Roed (1808-1888)
- Martinus Rørbye (1803-1848)
- Charles Roß (1816-1858)
- Carl Frederik Sørensen (1818–1879)
- Friedrich Thöming (1802–1873)
- Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875)
- Kilian Inch (1818-1860)
Exhibitions
- 2016: Eckersberg - Fascination Reality. The golden age of Danish painting. Hamburger Kunsthalle . Catalog.
gallery
Nude from the back (also morning toilet , girl / female model in front of the mirror ), 1841, oil on canvas, 33.5 × 26 cm, Den Hirschsprungske Samling
The porter's house in the park of Villa Borghese in Rome , 1816, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Mendel Levin Nathanson's older daughters Bella and Hanna (1820), oil on canvas, 125 × 85.5 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst
literature
- Leo Swane : Eckersberg, Christoffer Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 320–322 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- CW Eckersberg. In: Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon (English / Danish).
- Tino Mager: Eckersberg, Christoffer Wilhelm. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 59–63 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Works of the artist
- Works and biography (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |