During the first half of the nineteenth century, Danish and German artists studying in Paris and Rome brought back the concept of “plein air” painting and began to paint out-of-doors on their native soil. They introduced a whole new aesthetic that was sensitive to the light and atmospheric conditions peculiar to the north, especially during the long summer days. This beautiful book focuses on the painters and paintings of this period, particularly Caspar David Friedrich, who produced many fine works before he developed the romantic style for which he is better known. The book presents topographical landscapes, panoramas, and some group and individual portraits that often include a window from which light emanates. Essays by eminent authorities discuss various aspects of the Danish and North German open air movement. They note, for example, that the paintings reflect a direct view of nature devoid of the intellectual and moral overtones of the neoclassical paintings that preceded them. They also discuss the fact that Schleswig Holstein was closely allied with Denmark until 1848, and this favored many Hamburg and north German artists studying at the Academy in Copenhagen where painting out of doors was encouraged. In addition to the essays, the book presents 108 works by twenty-three artists, catalogue entries for each work, and a biography of each artist.

Baltic Light: Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany

Arts & Photography

Monrad, Kasper

Johnston, Catherine

Leppien, Helmut R.

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Christen Købke (1819–1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark’s “Golden Age,” the period of the nation’s supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and delicacy, without resorting to the artificial rhetoric of academic traditions. He endowed ordinary people and places, and simple motifs, with a universal significance; a world in microcosm. 
This beautiful book, written by leading scholars of Scandinavian art, offers an overview of Købke’s achievement within its cultural context, and also highlights the most innovative aspects of his work, including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy in the treatment of light and atmosphere, his exquisite originality, and his experimental outlook.

Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light

Jackson, David

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg book includes 51 high quality reproductions of his greatest masterpieces with title and date.

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853

Conisbee, Philip

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Eckersberg, C. W.

Ronberg, Lene Bogh

Natl Gallery of Art

Danish Painting: The Golden Age: a Loan Exhibition from the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish painting: The Golden Age : a loan exhibition from the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen , 5 September-20 November 1984

National Gallery

The Golden Age of Danish Painting

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Jornaes, Bjarne

Hudson Hills Pr

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), a major figure in the German Romantic movement, painted sublime works representing nature at its most melancholic and desolate. One of his most famous motifs was that of two intimate figures, seen from behind, gazing at the moon. Friedrich painted three versions of this theme, one of which -"Two Men Contemplating the Moon" - has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The text discusses the Metropolitan's painting in conjunction with the other two versions and a number of related paintings and drawings by Friedrich and his Dresden friends. It also presents fascinating details about the moon itself - including what was known about it in Friedrich's lifetime and its presence and symbolism in contemporary Romantic poetry.

Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers

REWALD, Sabine

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bob Dylan has been a prolific graphic artist since the 1960s, and his graphic art is marked by the same constant drive for renewal that characterises his music. Never content to remain static in a single form of expression that he has already cultivated, he is constantly experimenting and testing new artistic techniques and expressions. This book of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark encompasses some 100 works, including completely new works to be seen in public for the first time. Bob Dylan has recently delved into painting in acrylic, and the exhibition is the first to document this new direction in the artist's work, showing larger format paintings alongside drawings. Dylan's works are often created during his exhaustive touring, and his motifs bear corresponding imprints of the environments and people that he crosses in his life. As a graphic artist he functions as a phenomenal observer who depicts the immediately banal and everyday facets of life in such a way that they appear fresh and new for the viewer.

Bob Dylan: The Brazil Series

Elderfield,John

Individual Artists

Prestel

A comprehensive study of the great Danish painter, this monograph places Hammershøi within the context of his European contemporaries. This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershøi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershøi's enigmatic paintings, with their rich and muted palettes, have always enjoyed enormous popularity in Scandinavia, and recently his work has received renewed attention across the globe. Thematically arranged, this volume includes beautiful reproductions and essays that focus on London and Germany; and comparisons between him and such notable painters as Seurat, Gauguin, and Whistler. Fans of this remarkable painter, and anyone interested in modern art, will enjoy this celebration of Hammershøi as a part of the pantheon of great European painters.

Hammershøi and Europe

Reference

Now available in a paperback edition, this comprehensive volume on the great Danish painter Hammershøi places him within the context of his European contemporaries. This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershøi’s work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershøi’s enigmatic paintings, with their rich and muted palettes, have always enjoyed enormous popularity in Scandinavia, and recently his work has received renewed attention across the globe. Thematically arranged, this volume includes beautiful reproductions and essays that focus on Hammershøi’s isolated private life and travels; his time in London and Germany; and comparisons between him and such notable painters as Seurat, Gauguin, and Whistler. Fans of this remarkable painter, and anyone interested in modern art, will enjoy this celebration of Hammershøi as a part of the pantheon of great European painters.

Hammershoi and Europe

Dansk guldalder: Hovedværker på Statens museum for kunst (Danish Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Statens Museum for Kunst

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