#christen købke

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Christen Købke - Frederiksborg Palace seen from Jægerbakken. Evening (1835)

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1836 Christen Købke - Susanne Cecilie Købke, née Købke, the Artist’s Wife

(National Gallery of Denmark)

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Portrait of landscape painter Frederic Sødring, by Christen Købke, 1832.

There is something so wild about seeing this man from 1832 in such a casual pose, getting to see how his clothing behaves when he's slumped in a chair: the falls of his trousers puffing out in a silly and unflattering way, his waistcoat stiffly bending, his shirtcuffs undone and his collar flopping loosely.

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Christen Købke, Portrait of the Painter Wilhelm Marstrand, 1836

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Christen Købke, View of a Street in Østerbro outside Copenhagen. Morning Light, 1836, Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk, public domain.

(Picture source for View of a Street in Østerbro outside Copenhagen. Morning Light)

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by Christen Købke, 1832

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Christen Købke (May 26, 1810 - 1848) was a Danish National-Romantic painter from the Golden Age of Danish art. He trained at the Royal Academy, starting at age 12, studying with Eckersberg and others.

Eventually Købke traveled abroad to Italy, but upon return failed to be accepted as a full-fledged member by the Royal Academy. This is said to have broken his spirit and he died young from pneumonia.

Now he is considered the most talented Danish National Romantic artist, and he did master both portrait painting, landscapes, interiors and genre painting in almost equal measure. I like his landscapes, esp. those showing Copenhagen, the Danish capital as a semi-rural city. This is the view from out his father's garden gate:

Havelågen ved bagermester Købkes gård på Blegdammen, 1843-4 - oil on paper pasted onto canvas (SMK)

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Christen Købke (detail)

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"Portrait of the artist G.C. Hilker" by Christen Købke. Danish painter. oil on canvas

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Christen Schiellerup Købke (Danish, 1810–1848) 'Autumn Morning on Lake Sortedam', 1838 Oil on canvas, 33cm x 45cm

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Christen Købke - Autumn Morning on Lake Sortedam (1838)

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1831 Christen Købke - The Painter C.W. Eckersberg's Son Julius in his Fathers Studio

(National Gallery of Denmark)

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i’m obsessed with the beauty of tragedy and decay, but also of the life that springs forth from the ruins, greenery sprawling over the abandoned for another chance under the sun, bathing these memories in the promise of something new

( the forum, pompeii, with vesuvius in the distance by christen købke and a hermit praying in the ruins of a roman temple by hubert robert )

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Christen Købke, Self-Portrait, 1831-34

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