Frederik Ferdinand Helsted

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Frederik Ferdinand Helsted

Frederik Ferdinand Helsted (born March 18, 1809 in Copenhagen ; † December 11, 1875 there ) was a Danish painter, lithographer and drawing teacher.

Life

The son of master shoemaker Johan Sigersen Helsted and Ane Marie, née Salathee, began training as a musician at the age of 10, and at the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship as a shoemaker in his father's workshop. However, he gave up the desire to become a musician like his cousin and his sons and studied painting at the Copenhagen Art Academy from 1834 to 1837, interrupted in 1836 by brief drawing lessons from Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , who also instructed him in drawing perspectives in 1838. For his work he was awarded silver medals in 1834 and 1837 and a cash prize in 1836. In 1836 the future Danish King Christian VIII (1786–1848; King 1839) ordered a painting from him and in 1837 he was commissioned to illustrate Stein's anatomical textbook for sculptors. In 1841 he married Anna Christiane Wilhelmine Olsen (1815–1889) in Copenhagen and traveled to Düsseldorf with his own means, where he stayed for almost 3½ years from around 1842 to 1844. He then returned to Copenhagen via Nice, Rome and Florence. In 1845 he founded a drawing school, which existed as the most important training facility alongside the art academy until shortly before his death. In 1849 he gave up painting and worked exclusively as a drawing teacher. He was buried on Holmens Kirkegård in Copenhagen.

His son Axel Helsted (1847–1907) was his student and also became a painter. The musician Siger Helsted (approx. 1792–1841), the composers Edvard (1816–1900), Carl Helsted (1818–1904) and Gustav Helsted (1857–1904) as well as the painter Viggo Helsted (1861–1921) were descendants of the glove maker Mads Sigersen Helsted, one of his father's brothers.

Fonts

  • Veiledning i Tegnekonstens allerförste Grund , Issues 1–8, 1850.

Works

Helsted executed a large number of figurative compositions and portraits. He also developed templates for lithographs and also did lithographs himself. From 1833 to 1849 he was represented with 53 works at the exhibitions in Charlottenborg Palace near Copenhagen, in 1898 in the exhibition of the Royal Theater and in 1901 in the exhibition in Copenhagen City Hall.

  • Old man playing the clarinet ( En blind Olding spillkende clarinet ); issued: 1836.
  • A mother with her child, looking for protection from the Minotaur in a cave (En moder med sin datter, som på flugt for ofringen til Minotaur have søgt skjul i en hule); issued in 1837; formerly owned by King Christian VIII; Auctioned in 1864 from the property of King Frederik VII.
  • Two children who bind flowers (To børn som bind blomster); issued in 1841; formerly owned by King Christian VIII.
  • A shepherd with his lamb (En hyrde med sit lam); study painted in Rome; issued in 1845.
  • Cain and Abel (Kain og Abel), model (sketch); issued in 1847.
  • Playing boy (Dreng der spiller terre), terracotta; issued in 1847.
  • Little kids : Toreby, Fuglsang Art Museum.

Portraits:

  • Portrait of the architect Theophilus Hansen , 1838: Copenhagen, Königl. Academy for the Fine Arts.
  • Portrait of the surgeon Johann Christian Wendt (1777–1845). Lithograph 1838.
  • Portrait of the painter Detlef Conrad Blunck (1798–1854), around 1840: formerly the Johan Hansen collection (dissolved 1932/34); Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum.
  • Portrait of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , after Horace Vernet , oil on canvas, 98 × 74 cm, 1845; Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, Vol. 2.
  • Theobald Stein and his brothers (Th. Stein og hans to brødre), 1846.
  • Landgrave Wilhelm of Hessen (Landgreve Wilhelm af Hessen); issued in 1847.
  • Portrait of the Swedish musician and actor Michael Wiehe , issued: 1847: Copenhagen, Royal Theater.
  • Portrait of the chemist Wilhelm Christian Zeise : Fredriksborg Palace.
  • Rear Admiral CP Flensborg and his wife , lithography: u. a. in the Copenhagen collection of engravings; Fig .: Veiledning i Tegnekonstens allerförste Grund, H. 1–8, 1850.
  • Self-portrait ; Fig .: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon X, 1936, p. 25.

Portrait

  • Axel Helsted: Portrait of Frederik Ferdinand Helsted , oil on canvas (art trade).

literature

  • Carl Reitzel (Red.): Fortegnelse over Danske Kunstneres Arbeijder paa de ved det Kgl. Academy for de skjønne Kunster i Aarene 1807–1882 afholdte Charlottenburg-Udstillinger . Samlet and udgivet af Carl Reitzel. Med en Indledning af Julius Lange. Thieles Bogtrykkeri, Copenhagen 1883.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. 5th edition. Volume 5. Literary Institution Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921.
  • Helsted, Frederik Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923.
  • Frederik Ferdinand Helsted . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 7 : I. Hansen – Holmsted . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1893, p. 310 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Olaf Helsted: Slaegten Helsted . In: Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift , 6th year, 1941.
  • Weilbach's Kunstnerleksikon . Udgivet af en komite støtte af Carlsbergfondet. Editor: Merete Bodelsen og Povl Engelstoft. Tredje udgave. Aschehoug, København, Volume 1 (1949); Volume 3, Supplements (1952). 4th edition: 1994-2000.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Vol. 5, 1976.
  • Ines Geschwandtner: Helsted, Frederik Ferdinand . In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , pp. 73-74 (Fig .: Thorwaldsen portrait).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sophus August Vilhelm Stein (1797–1868; Professor of Anatomy at the Copenhagen Art Academy): Haandbog i Menneskets Anatomi, autoriseret til Brug for Eleverne ved det Kongl. Academi for de skjønne Konster, Copenhagen 1840
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432
  3. ↑ d. i. Flower children , oil on canvas, 103 × 90 cm (art trade; provenance: from the private collection of Crown Prince Christian VIII. According to Carl Reitzel)
  4. ↑ 1829-1901; Son of the anatomy professor Sophus August Vilhelm Stein
  5. ^ Christian Peder Flensborg (1772–1838) and Charlotte Margrethe, née Leth
personal data
SURNAME Helsted, Frederik Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter, lithographer and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1875
Place of death Copenhagen