#landscape painting

Sigvard Hansen (May 23, 1859 - 1938) was a Danish landscape painter. He was apprenticed at Aluminia (Porcelain factory) and studied at the Academy at the same time, but never graduated.

His specialty was Danish and foreign winter landscapes which he executed with great skill and sold in copious amounts. Here I have selected an atypical canvas, which I think shows off his technical skill with figures, scenery and a typical Danish grey sky:

Above:The Harbour of Elsinore, Denmark, 1884 - oil on canvas (Shown at Charlottenborg, privately owned)

Johan Ulrik Bredsdorff (May 22, 1845–1928) was a Danish landscape painter who trained at the Academy with Villhelm Kyhn in the 1860s. He rarely painted anything other than the Danish countryside, despite trips to Switzerland and Norway.

Above:Landscape with grazing sheep, 1903 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)

Einar Hein (May 19, 1875 - 1931), was one of the last generation of Skagen painters. He studied at the Academy in the 1890s and after that with P.S. Krøyer and Roll’s studio in Paris.

Above: Cyklister i havstokken, 1894 - oil on canvas (Skagens Museum)

Ulrik Hoff (84 today) is a Danish artist, trained at the Academy in the early 1960s with Palle Nielsen and others. For many years he ran his own prep school for young artists seeking entry into the Academy.

Hoff almost exclusively paints abstract landscapes, inspired by Northern Zealand (Tibirke) or the flat areas of Southern Jutland.

Above:Aftenstemning, Helsingør, 2001 - oil on canvas (Dansk Kunstgalleri

Vilhelm Melbye (May 14, 1824 - 1882) was a Danish marine and landscape painter. He was one of three brothers who all were successful marine painters, and Anton Melbye was Vilhelm’s primary teacher, although he did attend classes at the Academy.

Anton came to London already as a teen and preferred being abroad. After completing his training in Copenhagen, he studied for a year in Düsseldorf and Paris and then settled with commercial success in London. In 1862 he finally returned to Copenhagen and eventually became a professor at the Academy shortly before his death…

Above:Boats on the Lake, Scottish Highlands (Loch Lomond), 1856 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)

Peter Hansen (May 13, 1868 - 1928) was a Danish painter, considered one of the three original members of Fynboerne, a group of primarily landscape painters, who were the core students at Zahrtmann’s alternative Academy, Kunstnernes Frie Studieskole in the late 1880s.

Hansen was a native of Faaborg on Funen, and kept his house there which served as a summer base for him and his painter friends, Fritz Syberg (who married his sister) and Johannes Larsen. During winters Hansen and his family lived in Copenhagen. and he painted urban social realist sceneries. He also mastered portrait and genre painting.

Above:Landskab ved Lerbjerg, no year but after 1903 - oil on canvas (Brandts)

Frederik Vermehren (May 12, 1823 - 1910) was a Danish painter and professor at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. He was a dominant figure in Danish art in the second half of the 19. century, and a more conservative realist of the National Romantic school than contemporaries such as Zahrtmann and Krøyer. He was also in charge of acquisitions for the National Gallery (SMK) for a decade.

Above:Vinteraften ved Susåen, no date - oil on canvas (SMK)

Jens Vige (May 11, 1864 - 1912) was a Danish social-realist painter. He trained at the Academy and later with P.S. Krøyer. After marrying, he settled at Hammer Bakker in Northern Jutland and developed a preference for open air painting (he only worked summers) in Skagen and other heath and moor landscapes up north…

Above:Kvinder hakker lyng, 1906 - oil on canvas (SMK)

Gerda Nordling (May 28, 1875 - 1942) was a Swedish artist, best known for her woodcuts, although she also painted and sculpted. She trained at the Swedish Academy in the 1900s and later at the Académie Lhote in Paris.

She is represented at most major Swedish museums, including Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

Above:Skutor, 1917 - woodcut (Värmlands Museum)

Frederik Rohde (May 27, 1816 - 1886) was a Danish landscape painter who trained at the Academy and in addition took private lessons from Christen Købke. Rohde got a travel scholarship and went to Germany, Austria and Switzerland where he may have picked up a preference for winter landscapes, of which he painted very many throughout his career.

Above:Winter Landscape, 1848 - oil on canvas (SMK)

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)

Some rocks I painted for practice

A Stardew Valley inspired animation of the Secret Woods that I made a little while ago.

One of my first attempts at animating anything, but I thought it added that little something extra to it :)

Sorry I’ve been gone so long, and thanks to all of you who are still following me. I’m still doing the art thing and I have a massive backlog to post, I’m gonna try and actually start sharing stuff regularly again.

Here’s a recent little gouache piece I made!

some landscapes

“Sunset at Etretat”, c.1890, Eugène Boudin.

“A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight”, 1864, Claude Monet.