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    Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now in Aabenraa...
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    painters who studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg but died early and has therefore left a relatively small oeuvre. Wilhelm Bendz was born on 20 March...
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    including the writer Hans Christian Andersen, the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, the physicist Hans Christian...
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    The Death of Balder (category Paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg)
    (Danish: Balders Død) is an 1817 oil-on-canvas painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, depicting the well-known, eponymous legend from Norse mythology...
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  • of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting. The Eckersberg Medal was created in 1883, on the...
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    – 11 February 1907) was a Danish painter, a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Christen Dalsgaard was born on 30 October 1824. He was the...
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  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: Ages of Man...
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  • work of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and his students, including Wilhelm Bendz, Christen Købke, Martinus Rørbye, Constantin Hansen and Wilhelm Marstrand...
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    Lerberg, Fire danske Klassikere: Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg og Bertel Thorvaldsen [exhibition catalogue] (1992) Kunstlerleben...
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    known for his lifelike portraiture. One of the last students of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, who was known as the father of the Golden Age of Danish Painting...
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    Ulysses' revenge on Penelope's suitors (Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814)...
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    epoch, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Christen Købke are all buried here. Late in the 19th century...
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    later previous century by history painter Nicolai Abildgaard. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was not only a productive artist in his own right but taught...
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  • in spreading its influence in Germany. A crucial figure was Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, who had studied in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and was further...
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  • critics have noted the similarity of the Valar to the Æsir, the strong and combative Norse gods of Asgard. Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1817...
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    critics have noted the similarity of the Valar to the Æsir, the strong and combative Norse gods of Asgard. Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1817....
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    A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror (category Paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg)
    mirror) is an oil painting from 1841 by the Danish Golden Age painter CW Eckersberg. The painting is in the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen. The relatively...
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    Socrates and Alcibiades, by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1813–1816...
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    Countess of Dannemand (16 April 1810 – 28 December 1888), married in 1836 Wilhelm von Zachariæ (6 June 1807 – 16 August 1871), and had issue Caroline Augusta...
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    back to Greek statuary and painting, and is reproduced in Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's 1802 head and shoulders portrait of the giant (see below)....
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    The military training of Spartan youths (left, as imagined by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in 1812) was seen in Nazi Germany as a precursor to that of...
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    the best Danish artists, such as Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Laurits Tuxen, Joakim Skovgaard and Bjørn Nørgaard. To reach...
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    half-remembered religious conflict. This argument was first suggested by Wilhelm Mannhardt in 1877 (as described in Dumézil, xxiii and Munch, 288). On a...
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    examples are shown below. View of Møns Klint and Sommerspiret by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1809) Part of Møns Klint by Peter Christian Skovgaard (1852)...
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    inspired by the country itself with its lifestyle and traditions. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was an important influence on the following generation's study...
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    Fredericia–Padborg railway line c. 8 km northwest of Aabenraa. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783 in Blåkrog – 1853) Danish painter, laid the foundations...
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    Scene from Kongens Lyngby, 1810, painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg...
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    Danish). Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag. pp. 94–98. ISBN 87-567-5772-7. Suhr, Wilhelm (1957), "Christian I.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin:...
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  • Andersen, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Søren Kierkegaard, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Christen Købke, Ben Webster and Kenny Drew. Holmen Cemetery...
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    study to painting at the age of 21. He began his training under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in 1828. He lost both his parents at about this time to typhus...
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