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ECKERSBERG, KRISTOFFER (1783-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ECKERSBERG, KRISTOFFER (1783-1853) , Danish painter, was See also:born in See also:south See also:Jutland. He became successively the See also:pupil of Nikolaj See also:Abildgaard and of J. L. See also:David. From 18io to '1813 he lived at See also:Paris under the direction of the latter, and then proceeded, as an See also:independent artist, to See also:Rome, where he worked until 1816 in See also:close fellowship with See also:Thorwaldsen. His paintings from this period—" The Spartan Boy," " Bacchus and See also:Ariadne and Ulysses "—testify to the See also:influence of the See also:great sculptor over the See also:art of Eckersberg. Returning to See also:Copenhagen, he found himself easily able to take the first See also:place among the Danish painters of his See also:time, and his portraits especially were in extreme popularity. It is claimed for Eckersberg by the native critics that " he created a Danish See also:colour," that is to say, he was the first painter who threw off conventional tones and the pseudo-classical landscape, in See also:exchange for the clear See also:atmosphere and natural outlines of Danish scenery. But See also:Denmark has no heroic landscape, and Eckersberg in losing the See also:golden commonplaces scarcely succeeds in being delightful. His landscapes, however, are pure and true, while in his figure-pieces he is almost invariably conventional and old-fashioned. He was See also:president of the Danish See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts in See also:Charlottenburg.

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