Conrad Christian August Böhndel

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Conrad Christian August Böhndel ( Danish Bøhndel ; born March 7, 1779 in Store Tønde , Hostrup Sogn , Tønder Kommune ; † December 19, 1847 in Schleswig ) was a Danish painter and lithographer .

Life

Böhndel attended the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen from 1796 , where he befriended Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge . With a Danish scholarship he traveled to Dresden in 1802 and to Rome in 1805, where he mainly worked as a copyist until the end of 1809. From 1811 he worked as a portrait painter in Copenhagen. In 1813 he became a member of the academy, but when he was not appointed court painter, he left Copenhagen and settled in Schleswig, where he worked as a portrait painter and lithographer.

plant

As a portrait painter, Böhndel first appeared with a portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, which unfortunately has been lost. With his portraits, which are influenced by Jens Juel , he enjoyed considerable prestige in Copenhagen. His actual artistic achievement, however, consists in the pictorial reproduction of the so-called Bordesholmer Altar in Schleswig Cathedral , which appeared as a portfolio in an extremely lengthy, laborious and costly lithographic process at Speckter & Herterich and in the Flensburg lithographic printing plant by Johann Friedrich Fritz . Böhndel had sent the invitation to the subscription as well as sample sheets to Goethe in Weimar with a request for an assessment , to whom Böhndel's project in the magazine Über Kunst und Altertum gave an unbiased and benevolent review.

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personal data
SURNAME Böhndel, Conrad Christian August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bøhndel, Conrad Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Store Tønde , Hostrup Sogn , Tønder municipality
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1847
Place of death Schleswig