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 CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (January_2, 1783-July_22, 1853) was a Danish painter.
Eckersberg and Thorvaldsen developed a close lasting relationship, and the master served the younger Eckersberg as both loyal friend and advisor.
He was admitted as member of the Academy in October 1817, and was named professor at the Academy in 1818 having acceded to the vacant professorship caused by the death of Nikolaj_Abraham_Abildgaard in 1809.
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 Wilhelm Marstrand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Nicolai, knew Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, painter and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen, and according to story Eckersberg recommended that Wilhelm attend the Academy.
At 16 years of age he began hia studies at the Academy under Eckersberg, attending the school from 1826 to 1833.
Although Marstrand's interests had a firm hold in genre themes-- depiction of the daily life he observed around him in Copenhagen's streets, especially middle class society-- he reached for the pinnacle of Academic acceptability: the history painting.
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 Eckersberg's light touch - The Washington Times: Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eckersberg's "Alexander the Great on his Sickbed" (1806), an early history scene painted in David's studio, is clearly a student effort but already shows the Dane's liking for serene, balanced compositural-like structuring, whether with figures or enclosures.
Eckersberg's portraits in the second gallery, painted after he returned to Denmark in 1816, are pleasant and frank but not outstanding.
Eckersberg did what few artists accomplished: He combined the cool formality of academic traditionalism with forward-looking impressionistic effects that erupted with Monet and Renoir later in the century.
washingtontimes.com /arts/20031128-080059-4746r.htm   (888 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Eckersberg: A Great Dane or Just Well Trained?
To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, "Father of Danish Painting," the National Gallery of Art recently launched a rare survey of 51 of his signature works.
Papa Eckersberg may not exactly be a household name in the United States, but that only means that there's that much more for all of us to learn about him.
Eckersberg acts as though he's simply out to record the world just as he sees it, breasts and all.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A19339-2003Nov28?language=printer   (1404 words)

  
 Eckersberg
ECKERSBERG was the most influential Danish artist of the Biedermeicr period.
Eckersberg had a particular mastery of this pearly northern light and the way in which its dispersion in the damp atmosphere gives a hazy imprecision to sharp edges.
Mendel Levin Nathanson was a wealthy merchant who had commissioned history paintings from Eckersberg before he left for Paris and Rome and who commissioned two major portraits from him on his return: a family group and this portrait of his daughters.
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 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eckersberg learned the rudiments of painting as a child from his father, a carpenter and house painter.
When Eckersberg returned to Copenhagen in 1816, Denmark was devastated by defeat in the Napoleonic Wars yet experienced a time of national cultural revival, now considered the beginning of the Golden Age of Danish art.
As with many other artists and poets of his time, Eckersberg was fascinated by the discoveries of science, evident in his 1833 Theory of Perspective for Young Painters, where he applied the laws of geometry to the depiction of the natural world.
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 artnet.com Magazine Features - Great Dane
"Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853," Nov. 23, 2003-Feb. 29, 2004, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The four fathers of the Golden Age of Denmark -- Soren Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Andersen, August Bournonville and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg -- are regarded variously today.
Eckersberg spent three years in Paris, where he was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David; and then he went to Rome on a travel grant that came with the gold medal he'd won.
When Eckersberg returned home, he painted what he found in the harbor of Copenhagen with the same appreciation for light and color that he brought to bear on his views of Rome.
www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/tuchman/tuchman1-15-04.asp   (1057 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Wilhelm gets one-man show in Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Just a century and a half after his death in 1853 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, called the "father of Danish painting," is getting his first one-man show outside his homeland at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
WASHINGTON -- Just a century and a half after his death in 1853 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, called the "father of Danish painting," is getting his first one-man show outside his homeland at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Philip Conisbee, the gallery's senior curator of European art, calls Eckersberg "one of the most original painters of the early 19th century." He said Eckersberg, almost unknown outside Denmark, will have a more important place when the history of European art is rewritten.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/11/18/wilhelm_gets_one_man_show_in_washington   (347 words)

  
 The Golden Age of Danish Painting, 1790-1850
Artists all over Europe were executing this kind of plein-air sketch (this one happens to have been finished in the studio), beginning with the Frenchman Pierre-Henri Valenciennes and the little known Englishman Thomas Jones in the 1780s, and continuing in the early nineteenth century with the German Carl Blechem and the Swiss Barthélemy Menn.
Eckersberg's marines, with their exquisitely pristine light, accurate naval architecture, and impeccably balanced compositions, call to mind luminist paintings by English and American contemporaries such as Salmon, Bradford, and Lane, as well as by their great seventeenth-century Dutch antecedent, Willem van de Velde.
Eckersberg deftly conveys the textures of satin, upholstery, and polished wood, but at times his drawing and rigorously contrived compositions undermine the intended illusionism.
www.jasonkaufman.com /articles/denmarks_gilded_age.htm   (1725 words)

  
 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Online
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the National Gallery, London, UK View of the Forum in Rome
All images and text on this Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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The Academy had waited to fill the position until Eckersberg had returned to Denmark from his student travels, while delaying the attempts by Abildgaard's disciple, Christian Fædder Høyer, from Christian Gotlieb Kratzenstein-Stub, and from J.
Among his students were Wilhelm Bendz, Albert Küchler, Christen Købke, Vilhelm Kyhn, Jørgen Roed, Martinus Rørbye, Holger Roed, Constantin Hansen, Wilhelm Marstrand, Adam August Müller, Matthias Heinrich Elias Eddelien, Emanuel Larsen, Niels Carl Michaelius Flindt Dahl, and Anton Laurids Johannes Dorph.
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 Welcome Guests from Denmark
Unlike students at all the other art academies in Europe, young painters in Copenhagen were taught by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853) to study the landscape in natural light.
Eckersberg had become familiar with plein-air painting in Rome in the period between 1813 and 1816, as demonstrated by his views of the city that are also included in this exhibition; according to Eckersberg, these works ”were all painted on the spot, directly from nature”.
With his sober attitude and specific focus on visible reality, Eckersberg, who held the post of Professor of history painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1818 onwards, had a formative influence on the Academy until the mid-19th century and is still referred to as the ”father of Danish painting”.
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de /archiv/seiten/en_daenemark.html   (398 words)

  
 Guide to the danish golden age - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eckersberg has been called “the father of Danish painting” because his qualities as a painter and teacher had such impact for the entire generation of Golden Age painters.
To Eckersberg, the detailed realism of his studies of nature was the ideal and truth of art.
This allowed him to remove less beautiful features so that the motifs emerge refined and idealised, but in such a way that the natural appearance of the presentation convinced the viewer that it was directly experienced by the painter.
www.guldalder.dk /show.asp?id=242   (360 words)

  
 art, fine art, antiques, artists, antique furniture, artist, collectibles, abstract art, silver, paintings, silver, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg’s retrospective opening November 23 at Washington’s National Gallery of Art brings to the United States a painter’s eye-view of Denmark in the first half of the 19th century.
The father figure for the appropriately named Golden Age of Denmark is Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
Eckersberg also introduced a wondrous sense of light and atmosphere that was sorely lacking in their early neo-classicism as well as the day to day gray climes of Denmark.
www.artandantiques.net /A_A_Update.htm?CD=699&ID=1203   (545 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: At the National Gallery, An Array of Smart Art
As Picasso's reductive skills as an artist boiled down his lover's face and body into sculptural planes, even to the point where she looks like some sort of sci-fi insect-woman, Fernande the woman paradoxically disappears the more we -- and Picasso -- look at her.
Upstairs, "Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853" is the first monographic show in this country dedicated to the man known as the father of Danish painting in his homeland (where he is as famous as philosopher Soren Kierkegaard), but little known stateside.
Far from a blockbuster, it's still the sort of sterling exhibition that the National Gallery is known for -- thorough and thoroughly unexpected.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11731-2003Dec18?language=printer   (787 words)

  
 Fine Art Emporium - The Site for Marine Art
Eckersberg was and is the most important marine artist in Denmark.
He represents the Golden Age of the Danish Realistic Art in the first half of the 19th Century and was an important teacher for several artists at the Academy in Copenhagen, where he worked as a Professor and later became the Director.
He signed "C.W. Eckersberg" or with his initials and many works are dated.
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 2blowhards.com: Elsewhere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eckersberg studied with David but didn't have the temperament for history painting himself.
But it is the ability of more circumscribed artists like Eckersberg to slow our systems and to show us reality as we may not have paused to consider it before," writes Michael Kimmelman in a helpful piece for the NYTimes (here).
About 10 years ago the L. Times ran a fl and white picture of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's "Woman in Front of a Mirror." I cut it out and taped the picture in one of my sketchbooks.
www.2blowhards.com /archives/001218.html   (2923 words)

  
 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen (2003.180) | Object Page | Timeline of Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen (2003.180)
Pen and gray ink with brown wash; Sheet: 8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.
After spending his student years in Paris and Rome, Eckersberg returned to his native land, where, as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, he earned the epithet "father of Danish painting." Eckersberg produced portraits throughout his career, but his serene maritime views reflect his Neoclassical training most lucidly.
www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/10/eue/hod_2003.180.htm   (97 words)

  
 CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
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 National Gallery of Art - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The founder of a distinctive national school of painting in Denmark, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) influenced a generation of artists who collectively created the
Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the artist's death, this exhibition will be the first in twenty years devoted exclusively to Eckersberg's art, and the first such monographic exhibition ever held outside Denmark.
The exhibition represents all aspects of his multifaceted work but will have a special emphasis on his portraits, landscapes, and marine subjects.
www.nga.gov /exhibitions/eckersberginfo.htm   (139 words)

  
 Impressions of the North: Scandinavian painting 1800-1915 - Fondation de l'Hermitage : Expositie / Exhibition at ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The years from 1820 to 1850 saw the blossoming of a true Golden Age for Danish painting.
Artists such as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg or Christen Købke, inspired by their travels in Italy, France and Germany, applied a naturalist approach to landscape painting which revealed a keen sense of colour and light.
The following decades were to see all the different 19th-century art movements unfurling in Scandinavia with each country adding its own particular sensitivity to the new artistic tendencies emerging all over Europe.
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 Other countries (from Western painting) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The main Danish painter who produced original Neoclassical works was Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard.
Other Danish painters include Abildgaard's and David's pupil Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
David was very influential in Brussels, where he retired late in life.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-69586   (889 words)

  
 NGA - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853 (11/2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Overview: This exhibition of 51 paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg traced the artist's career and featured landscapes, nautical scenes, and portraits.
Support for the catalogue was provided by The Honorable Edward E. Elson and Mrs.
Catalogue: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: 1783-1853, by Philip Conisbee, Kasper Monrad, and Lene Bøgh Rønberg.
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 ZUJI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Several decades later, Copenhagen had turned its attention away from the atrocities of war and was concentrating on the cultural revolution that was daubing, scribbling and philosophising its way across the country.
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, the writer Hans Christian Andersen, the verbose theologian Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, founder of the Danish School of Art, all contributed to this artistic 'Golden Age'.
Copenhagen benefited physically from the revolution through the grand neoclassical statues bestowed on it by sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
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 C Eckersberg (1793 - 1865) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
This major exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Canada, the H...
Kulturvaerdiudvalget - C.W. Eckersberg Portræt af Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kulturvaerdiudvalget - C.W. Eckersberg Panorama af Kronborg og Helsingør
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