Heinrich Hansen (painter)

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Heinrich Hansen, 1865

Heinrich Hansen (born November 23, 1821 in Hadersleben , † July 11, 1890 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish painter.

Life

Hansen became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1842 to train as a decorative painter. As such, he was busy with the paintings on the outside of the Thorwaldsen Museum and those of Christian IV's chapel in Roskilde Cathedral .

After visiting the most important art cities in Germany in 1847 , he became a teacher of perspective and began to paint architecture, but made trips through western Europe to Spain in order to expand his knowledge of picturesque buildings. From 1868 he was the artistic director of Bing & Grøndahl for a long time , whose program he shaped with his preference for the Nordic Renaissance. Hansen created a series of table utensils with views of the castles of the Danish kings and in 1873 he took part in the world exhibition in Vienna with a giant vase , which he had painted inside with a view of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Four of his pictures, which are generally characterized by the fine guidance of light, are in the Copenhagen gallery, among them Christian IV's room in Rosenborg Castle . He visited Italy in 1875 and stayed in France in 1878 . This year, on the occasion of the major art exhibition at the Paris Salon , Hansen was able to present his works, the Hall of the Four Towers in the Doge's Palace in Venice and the living room of a Lübeck merchant in the 16th century .

War room (1881)

In 1888 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Arts in Stockholm for his painting of the Lübeck City Hall . The picture is in the holdings of the Swedish National Museum .

In 2009, the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck acquired a painting by Hansen showing the parlor of the Lübeck town hall carved by the Lübeck renaissance carver Tönnies Evers the Younger in 1881. The war room burned down during the air raid on Lübeck in March 1942 .

Heinrich Hansen died in Frederiksberg in 1890 at the age of almost 70.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Hansen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Hansen . 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, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Thorsten Rodiek : A picture with Lübeck without "c" In: Lübeckische Blätter . 2009, pp. 168/169.
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadersleben
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1890
Place of death Frederiksberg