Marie Dorethea Juliane (Julie) Lütken (1788–1816) was a Danish painter who specialized in
landscapes
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. Unusually for her times when women were not admitted to the
Academy
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, thanks to the private instruction she received from Claudius Mørch, Carl Frederik Vogt and above all
Johan Ludwig Lund
Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund (primarily known as J. L. Lund) (16 October 1777 – 3 March 1867) was a Danish painter, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein, to master painter Hans Giewert Lund and his wife Maria Magdalena Christina Bremer. An adherent of r ...
, she was able to exhibit at the
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition
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The event is held at the Charlottenborg Exhibition Building (''Kunsthal Charlottenborg'').
Kunsthal Charlottenborg ...
in 1815. She died in May 1816 when only 28 after jumping out of a carriage drawn by a horse which had run wild.
Biography
Born in
Copenhagen
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on 23 March 1788, Marie Dorethea Juliane Lütken was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Christian Ludvig Lütken (1750–1813) from
Hamburg
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Hamburgian(s)
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and his wife Marie Juliane Johanne née Schinmeyer (1765–1832) from
Stettin
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. The eldest of the family's three children, she married the merchant Christian Grevsen in August 1804 but the marriage was dissolved. In June 1815, she married the merchant Johannes Overbeck.
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Lütken received private instruction in drawing from Claudius Mørch (1759–1813) before studying painting under Carl Frederik Vogt (1781–1834) and Johan Ludwig Lund (1777–1867) of the Royal Academy.][ From their correspondence, it appears that Lund developed a romantic relationship with her.][
In 1815, Lütken presented six fine landscape paintings at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition reminiscent of the style of Jens Juel.][
After marrying Overbeck in June 1815, she moved with him to Hamburg where she began work on a Zealand landscape which was intended to be her acceptance painting as a member of the Academy. It was never completed. On 1 May 1816, Julie Lütken died in Hamburg after jumping out of a carriage drawn by a horse which had run wild.][
Three of Lütken's paintings form part of the collection of ]Statens Museum for Kunst
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The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and han ...
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References
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1788 births
1816 deaths
Painters from Copenhagen
19th-century Danish painters
19th-century Danish women artists
Julie
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Road incident deaths in Germany
People from Hamburg