J.Th. Lundbye

(1818–1848) dansk målare

J.Th. Lundbye (1818–1848) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, J.Th. Lundbye belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

J.Th. Lundbye was born in Kalundborg and died in Bedsted. J.Th. Lundbye trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The teachers included Christian Frederik Carl Holm and Johan Ludwig Lund. Wikidata associates J.Th. Lundbye with realism.

The best-known works include ‘A Danish Coast. View from Kitnæs on Roskilde Fjord. Zealand’, ‘Zealand Landscape. View from Bjerresø Mark towards Vejrhøj and Dragsholm Manor’, ‘Hankehøj’, and ‘Kolås Wood, Vejrhøj’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 65 works by J.Th. Lundbye with free images. The dated works span the years 1834–1848. Works by J.Th. Lundbye are held by several collections, among them Statens Museum for Kunst, Nationalmuseum, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, and Hirschsprungs museum.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Henrik Weber, Eduard Hildebrandt, Sergey Zaryanko, Johan Vilhelm Gertner, and Jean-Adolphe Beaucé.

• Realism
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