Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt (17 December 1823 – 25 June 1895) was a Danish portrait painter.

Biography

August Schiøtt was born in

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northe ...

, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Erpecum Schiøtt and Anna Sophie Marie Fleron. His father was a customs official. After his confirmation, he was sent to school in Copenhagen where he later entered the

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark. History The Royal Dan ...

and had an undistinguished academic record. For a short time, he was a private student of

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Southern Jutland region of Denmark. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Dan ...

. His first portrait (of a child) was created in 1844, two years before his graduation. After that, he painted six to eight portraits every year. Altogether, he presented over 150 portraits at the

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, including several of the Royal Family:

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(three times), Prince Ferdinand, Princess Caroline and Prince (later King)

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. In addition to these portraits, his most notable include those of Baron , who was the grandfather-in-law of

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, General

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, and the history painter J.L. Lund.August Schiøtt
Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon He was married in 1850, to Betty Augusta Ultima Søth (1820-1853), but she wife died three years later, after they returned from an Academy supported study trip to

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and

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. In 1854, he was named a member of the Academy. He remarried in 1855, to Mariane Ogilvie (1836-1857) and, in 1866, became a titular professor. In 1872, he received ""; a grant for composers, writers and artists. This enabled him to visit Southern Europe,

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and

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where he made numerous sketches of people and landscapes. In addition to his portraits, he created numerous figure compositions, such as King

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with his son

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, Christ at

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and

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scenes of peasant life. He was awarded the

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in 1880. He died at

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in 1895 and was buried at

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. One of his children, Elisabeth Schiøtt (1856-1893), studied with

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and

Laurits Tuxen Laurits Regner Tuxen (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art schoo ...

and became a landscape painter. In 1938, an auction of his and his daughter's remaining works was held at the Academy and the proceeds were used to establish a scholarship.

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Schiøtt.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schiott, August 1823 births 1895 deaths 19th-century Danish painters Danish male painters Danish portrait painters People from Helsingør Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts faculty Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Burials at the Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen 19th-century Danish male artists