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- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter.
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- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January – 22 July ) was a Danish painter.
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Life of CHRISTOFFER WILHELM ECKERSBERG
Danish painter. After being trained in Copenhagen and studying in Paris (1810-13) under Jacques-Louis David, he continued his studies in Rome (1814), where he executed a masterly portrait of his friend Thorvaldsen (Royal Academy, Copenhagen, 1815). Returning to Copenhagen in 1816, he occupied himself mainly with portraits, minutely rendering the features of his models with a Neoclassic feeling for c1arity and purity of line. He also painted many landscapes, however (as he had done in Rome), and as an influential teacher at the Copenhagen Academy (from 1818) he introduced painting from nature into the curriculum. He also executed some religious themes and subjects from Danish history in Christiansborg Palace.
His pupils included Johan Christian Dahl and Christen Købke . He has been called the father of Danish painting because of the influence he exerted on Danish painters in the second quarter of the
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- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was born in in Schleswig, more specifically the little place Blåkrog, and later the family moved to Blans near the fjord at Als. The father had several professions, including: carpenter, interior painter and boat builder.
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. | |
Eckersberg learned the rudiments of painting as a child from his father, a carpenter and house painter. | |
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg died in 1853 of cholera. |