Christen Dalsgaard
(1824–1907) dansk målare
Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Christen Dalsgaard belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Christen Dalsgaard was born in Krabbesholm and died in Sorø. Christen Dalsgaard trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Christen Dalsgaard studied under Martinus Rørbye. Christen Dalsgaard worked in Denmark. The awards include De Neuhausenske Præmier, Thorvaldsen Medal, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, and Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog. The students included Poul Bille-Holst, Robert Bojesen, Sofie Holten, and Elise Konstantin-Hansen.
The best-known works include ‘The Village Carpenter Bringing a Coffin for a Dead Child’, ‘Mormons Visiting a Country Carpenter’, ‘The Bailiff Calls on a Poor Cooper in Salling’, and ‘A Woman's Solemn Churching after Childbirth’. The catalogue has 43 works by Christen Dalsgaard with free images. The dated works span the years 1843–1906. Works by Christen Dalsgaard are held by Statens Museum for Kunst, Hirschsprungs museum, and Nationalmuseum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The interwar years’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Vilhelm Melbye, Auguste Bonheur, Anna Mary Howitt, and Henri-Pierre Picou.