Golden Age (Denmark)
oil on canvas, 33.5 × 26 cm,
Den Hirschsprungske Samling .
The golden age of Denmark (Danish: den danske guldalder ) is the period from 1800 to 1850 , which is considered to be the epoch of high cultural prosperity. It occurred at the same time as the Danish monarchy's loss of political power after a long period of economic prosperity , which resulted in the loss of the Danish territories in what is now Schleswig-Holstein in the war against Prussia and Austria-Hungary . The artists of the Golden Age showed their growing bourgeois self-confidence and broke with the restrictive academic conventions in art and thought. A stay in Rome became an integral part of her artistic education . The term was first used in 1890 in a text by the literary critic Valdemar Vedel (1865–1942).
The following people are associated with this golden age:
- Hans Christian Andersen , poet
- Wilhelm Bendz , painter
- Gottlieb Bindesbøll , painter
- Detlev Conrad Blunck , German-Danish painter
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , painter
- Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , theologian, educator and patriot
- Christian Frederik Hansen , architect
- Constantin Hansen , painter
- Lorenz Frølich , painter
- Johanne Luise Heiberg , actress
- Gustav Friedrich von Hetsch , architect and artistic director of the Porcelain Manufactory Royal Copenhagen
- Jens Juel , painter
- Søren Kierkegaard , philosopher and religious writer
- Christen Schellerup Købke , painter
- Albert Küchler , painter
- Friedrich Kuhlau , composer of German origin
- Vilhelm Marstrand , painter
- Hans Christian Ørsted , physicist and chemist
- Martinus Rørbye , painter
- Peter Christian Thamsen Skovgaard , landscape painter
- Jørgen Sonne , painter
- Bertel Thorvaldsen , sculptor
literature
- Patricia G. Berman: In Another Light - Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century . Thames and Hudson, London 2007. ISBN 978-0-500-23844-8 .
- Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen: Danish Painting of the Golden Age (catalog). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 1995.
