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Peter Gemzøe
Peter Henrik Gemzøe (6 February 1811 – 3 October 1879) was a Danish painter and lithographer. Early life and education Gemzøe was born in Copenhagen, the son of copyist in the Treasury Carl Henrik Peter Gemzøe (1778–1840) and Andriette Frederikke Opitius ( – 1830). He was endorsed to pursuit his talent for drawing by Wilhelm Bendz and was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1829 while in the same time studying privately under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He qualified for the academy's Model School in 1832. He belonged to Christen Købke's social circle and in 1832 created a number of lithographies based on Købke's portraits of N. L. Feilberg and F. C. Sibbern. In the late 1830s, he gave up painting altogether to completely focus on lithography. He spent four years in Munich from 1840 where he studied under Hohe and Kohler. Career Gemzøe worked for Det kgl. stentrykkeri until 1837 and then for E. Bærentzen & Co. from 1837 to 1840 and again from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Exner
Johan Julius Exner, (30 November 1825 – 15 November 1910), Denmark, Danish Genre works, genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czechs, Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter. Exner originally intended on becoming a history painting, history painter, but quickly found his niche, however, in genre painting, the most popular and lucrative painting style of his era. His genre paintings figured prominently in Denmark's National romanticism, National Romantic period, an artistic period directly after the Golden Age of Danish Painting, when artistic focus was turned inwards to uniquely Danish themes. Life Artistic training and early career The younger Exner was interested in drawing and painting from an early age and was put in private training after his confirmation. He began to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') April 1839, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
