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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -Gautam Shah
Christen Købke (1810-1848) was a Danish painter. He was the best-known painter of the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He began studying drawing at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.
Købke painted portraits, landscapes and architectural paintings. Most of Købke ’s portraits are of friends, family members and fellow artists. He found subjects from the immediate surroundings, such as local areas around the Citadel in Copenhagen. He painted many views overlooking the lake towards the city and the embankments surrounding the city. He has been called Master of Light and recognised for the Seductive Emptiness in the scapes.
Købke ’s architectural scenes in sketches and oil paintings are well composed with precision. He sketched many images in Italy (Rome, Naples, and Pompeii) and other places, but conversion to oil painting was not well appreciated.
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