KØBKE, CHRISTEN Volumes 1-3 Catalogue raisonnée. Omkring Kastellet

Author: Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 358
Illustrations: 142 Color Illustrations. 117 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 13”x 10”
Weight: 15.00
ISBN: 8701027344
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 2793

Price: $425.00

Here is a definitive, 3-volume work about Christen Købke, who was an exemplar of the Golden Age of Danish painting in the 19th century. Volume 1 (OMKRING KASTELLET) traces Købke’s family and the times in Denmark, his period in the city of Århus, his collaboration with C.W. Eckersberg and Niels Lauritz Høyen, the influences of Christianity, classicism, and nature in his work. The scholarship of this book and all three volumes is of the highest order, as are the reproductions of Købke’s art. Volume 2: DOSSERINGEN OG FREDERIKSBORG concentrates on the period of time he spent in different areas of Scandinavia, and contains many beautiful landscape paintings. Featured also are Købke’s masterful portraits, along with his delicate renderings. Volume 3: ITALIEN TUR-RETUR (Back and Forth to Italy) includes wonderful landscapes painted during the time he spent in Italy, as well as his later works from Scandinavia. As in the other two volumes, the scholarship and quality of the reproductions here are of the highest order. This work should be in the library of all serious students of Scandinavian as well as 19th-century art.