Christen Købke

(1810–1848) dansk målare

Christen Købke (1810–1848) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Christen Købke belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Christen Købke was born in Copenhagen and died in Copenhagen. Christen Købke trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The teachers included Christian August Lorentzen and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Christen Købke worked in Copenhagen. Wikidata associates Christen Købke with Danish Golden Age. The students included Lorenz Frølich, Dankvart Dreyer, Frederik Rohde, and Andreas Fritz.

The best-known works include ‘Efterårsmorgen ved Sortedamssøen’, ‘View of a Street in Østerbro outside Copenhagen. Morning Light’, ‘The Transept of Århus Cathedral’, and ‘Portrait of landscape painter Frederic Sødring’. The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting and portrait painting. The catalogue has 106 works by Christen Købke with free images. The dated works span the years 1829–1848. Works by Christen Købke are held by several collections, among them Statens Museum for Kunst, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery, and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alfred Dedreux, Apollon Mokritsky, Alfred Jacob Miller, Jules Noël, and Marie-Élisabeth Cavé.

• Romanticism
• Efterårsmorgen ved Sortedamssøen