Emmerik Lucian Høegh-Guldberg (4 May 1807 – 31 May 1881) was a Danish painter who was born in

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to Julius Høegh-Guldberg, a military officer and politician, and his wife Margrethe Pallene Hahn. His half-brother was the politician Christopher Julius Høgh-Guldberg and his grandfather was Ove Høegh-Guldberg. Høegh-Guldberg was awarded the

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in 1853 and was made a Knight of the Dannebrog in 1874. ARoS Art Museum contains one painting of Emmerik Høegh-Guldberg painted by his friend

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Education

Emmerik Høegh-Guldberg was the child of Julius Høegh-Guldberg and Margrethe Pallene Hahn who lived in Aarhus. Emmerik was originally supposed to have a military career like his father and he became a military

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in 1819 to 1826. However, in 1828 he went to

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where he was admitted to the

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. He studied painting under

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and later graduated from the plaster school in July 1828. Like Lorentzen he mostly worked with animal painting but also did etchings on metal.

Work

In 1829 he came back to Aarhus and got a job teaching writing and calculus at Aarhus Cathedral School. In 1859 he became

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at the Cathedral School and he kept working there until 1879. While working at the Cathedral School he was also principal of Prins Frederik Ferdinands Tegneskole, which would later become Aarhus Tech. In 1840 he helped organize an art exhibition in Aarhus which later became ''Aarhus Museum''. Høegh-Guldberg exhibited at the

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in 1833-38, 1852 and 1855.

Private life

In 1834, Emmerik Høegh-Guldberg co-founded ''Aarhus Borgerlige Skydeselskab'' (Aarhus Shooting Society) which his father and brother also became members of. In 1836, he married Vilhelmine Therese Gebauer, the daughter of Christian David Gebauer. Christian Gebauer was Høegh-Guldbergs teacher and mentor while he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Vilhelmine Therese Gebaurer died the year after in 1837 and in 1843 he married again, this time to Jacobine Mathilde Raae, the daughter of the merchant Peter Christian Raae. The couple had 5 children: Carl Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Margrethe Frederikke Wilhelmine Høegh-Guldberg, Emma Nora Høegh-Guldberg, Petra Høegh-Guldberg and Julie Hanne Mathilde Høegh-Guldberg.

Paintings

Bjørnejagt (by sketch of Gebauer, 1833,

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); En brølende tyr (exh. 1833); En ædende ko (exh. 1833); Udsigt over Århus fra en i nærheden liggende klint (exh. 1836); Kvægmarked (exh. 1838); En forpost (exh. 1852); Jysk hornkvæg (exh. 1855).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Høegh-Guldberg, Emmerik 1807 births 1881 deaths Artists from Aarhus Danish painters Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog