Johan Adolph Kittendorff

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Johan Adolph Kittendorff (born April 5, 1820 in Copenhagen ; † April 20, 1902 there ) was a Danish watercolor painter, draftsman and lithographer .

Life

The son of master weaver Johan Adolph Friedrich Kittendorff (1793–1849) and Anna Amalia Elisabeth, née Kuhn (1797–1864), grew up with his siblings Axel Theodorand Amalia Eleonore (1817–1890) in Copenhagen. Here he first completed an apprenticeship as a room painter with master painter JG Berg and then switched to further training at Emil Bærentzen's Litographic Institute (Em. Bærentzen & Comp.). At the same time he attended the Copenhagen Art Academy for several years. Here he was awarded the small silver medal in 1841 and the large silver medal in 1849. In 1850 he founded a lithographic institute with JW Tegner (1815-1893), which existed until Tegner's death. From 1855 to 1893 he worked as a drawing teacher in the preparatory class of the academy, of which he was elected in 1880. In 1890 he was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog . He was close friends with the painters Vilhelm Marstrand and Vilhelm Kyhn. He remained unmarried throughout his life. His grave is preserved in the old cemetery in Fredriksberg. In 1904, a foundation for artists was set up from his estate.

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As early as 1845 Kittendorff made lithographic reproductions of the pen drawings by Johan Thomas Lundbye for the children's fables ( Fabler for børn , 1845) by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund (1818–1885). He drew the illustrations for Felttogene: 1848. 49. 50 by Wilhelm Holst (1807–1898) for his brother Axel, who was trained as a woodcutter and who had founded the xylographic institute Kittendorff & Aagaard in 1849 with Johan Peter Aagaard . From 1872 to 1882 he was represented in many exhibitions with his watercolors, drawings and lithographs.

Publishing editions (selection)

  • Portrait of Christian Vaupell (1821–1862), lithograph by IW Tegner & Kittendorff after a daguerreotype, 1864

Work (selection)

  • Portraits of Rittmeister Würtzen, JW Tegner, MV Brun, drawings: Fredriksborg, Museum

Single sheets:

  • The morning after the battle of Idsted (Slaget ved Idsted the 25th July 1850), lithograph after Jørgen Sonne (painter) , 1852
  • Schleswig, April 23, 1848 (Slesvig d. April 23, 1848) and soldiers in an outpost battle (Soldater i en Forpostfægtning), lithographs after Niels Simonsen
  • Soldiers playing cards (Spillere hos Hans Kock i Kjær By paa Als), lithograph after Frederik Christian Lund
  • Christian II in prison and fisherman's boy (colored), after Carl Bloch
  • Danish artist in Rome , after Constantin Hansen
  • Danish artist in an osteria , after Detlev Conrad Blunck
  • The artist's table in Fink's coffee house in Munich , woodcut after Wilhelm Bendz
  • Philoctetes , woodcut after Nicolai Abildgaard

Portraits

  • Fredrik Vermehren (1823–1910), 1860 (Fredriksborg, Museum)
  • PC (Peter Christian Thamsen) Skovgaard (1817–1875), drawing 1869 (Copenhagen, Royal Library)
  • Vilhelm Marstrand, painting 1869 (Fredriksborg, museum)
  • Sophus Vermehren (1866–1950), painting 1893
  • Th. (Johan Carl Henrik Theobald) Stein (1829–1901), relief 1890

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolph Kittendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gravsted.dk
personal data
SURNAME Kittendorff, Johan Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1902
Place of death Copenhagen