Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
(1783–1853) dansk målare
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was born in Blåkrog and died in Copenhagen. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The teachers included Nicolai Abildgaard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jes Jessen. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg worked in Copenhagen and Paris. Wikidata associates Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg with Danish Golden Age. The awards include Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog. The students included Ditlev Martens, Hans Matthison-Hansen, Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, and Martinus Rørbye.
The best-known works include ‘A View through Three of the North-Western Arches of the Third Storey of the Coliseum’, ‘At a Window in the Artist's Studio’, ‘Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson’, and ‘A nude woman doing her hair before a mirror’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg with free images. The dated works span the years 1802–1852. Works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg are held by several collections, among them Statens Museum for Kunst, Nationalmuseum, Hirschsprungs museum, and Thorvaldsen Museum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Henriette Gertruide Knip, Johan Niclas Byström, Samuel Prout, Paulin Guérin, and James Baillie Fraser.