VALDEMAR KORNERUP

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Valdemar Kornerup (1865-1924) was a Danish Painter of Interior spaces. He was the son of a skilled lithographer, who initiated him in the Art field. He, during, 1881-85, worked at the Academy of Arts. He, in 1887, made a debut at Charlottenborg, with two pictures. Kornerup, in 1898, studied in Norway, where he mainly stayed. He travelled in France and Italy, in 1890, he was in Italy, Spain and Greece and in 1895 again in Italy.

He was acknowledged as one of the last great folk life painters in Denmark. Even when the painting styles were changing across Europe, he continued to paint on Danish old school Art that idealized, romanticized and celebrated the simple homely interiors.

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CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG

 

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) was Danish Artist. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark. He was called the father of Golden age of Danish art. He began with historical paintings, portraits and landscapes. On the way, he made drawings for copper plate etchings. He improved his skills in painting, the human form, and followed his teacher's admonition, ‘to paint after Nature and the Antique in order to find Truth’. He travelled to Germany to Paris, and than onto Rome. He liked the local bright Italian light, and, here produced a large number of Art works, These included some exceptional landscape studies.

He wrote a dissertation on the subject called Linear perspective used in the art of painting (Linearperspektiven, anvendt paa Malerkunsten) in 1841. 

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CHRISTEN KØBKE

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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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