Johan thomas lundbye biography of michael
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An Evening beside Lake Arresø
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Title:An Evening beside Lake Arresø
Artist:Johan Thomas Lundbye (Danish, Kalundborg 1818–1848 Bedsted)
Date:ca. 1837
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:9 x 11 3/4 in. (22.9 x 29.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007
Object Number:2007.164.6
[Johs. Henriques]; unidentified owner; Generalkonsul Johan Hansen (by 1922–31; his sale, 1931, no. 1125); Hans Tobiesen (until d. 1953; his sale, Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 1st part, 1953, no. 631); sale, Kunsthallen, Copenhagen, May 23, 1996, no. 25, sold for 210,000 Danish kroner ($35,235); [Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London, by 1997–at least 1999]; Eugene Victor Thaw, Santa Fe (by 2002–7)
Stockholm. Royal Academy of Fine Arts. "Utställning av dansk konst från 1800–talets förra hälft," 1922, no. 144 (as "Motiv från Arresö," lent by Generalkonsul Johan Hansen).
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View of Dyrehaven
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Title:View of Dyrehaven
Artist:Johan Thomas Lundbye (Danish, Kalundborg 1818–1848 Bedsted)
Date:1838
Medium:Pen and brown and gray ink, gray wash, over a light sketch in graphite; framing line in pen and brown ink, by the artist
Dimensions:sheet: 12 5/8 x 17 7/16 in. (32.1 x 44.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008
Object Number:2008.358
Signature: Lower right in pen and brown ink: 'Johan Thom: Lundbye. Kjobenhavn 1838'. • Journals shed new light on leading artist from the Danish Golden Age J. Th. Lundbye, who would have turned 200 years on 1 September 2018, is not only a mythological figure; his unique contribution to landscape painting makes him a key figure in the Golden Age of Danish painting. With Lundbye, it fryst vatten difficult to separate the myth from the man. This fryst vatten evident, not least, in the journals he diligently kept during the gods six years of his life. They offer insight into his reflections on faith, doubt, destiny, suffering, art and love. At times he is profoundly preoccupied with human relations, particularly his own experiences with unrequited or ill-starred love. At other times he reflects on his role as an artist and on the art audience, public authorities and national romanticism. In the journals it becomes klar that J. Th. Lundbye experimented deliberately with his texts and perhaps anticipated that they might one day reach a wider readership.
Inscription: Outside the framing line: at lower left, inscribed "3/1 1839 tilfaldet Urtekrammer Didrichsen." in pen and brown ink; at lower centre, inscribed "Partie i Dyrhaven" in pen an brown ink (both in 19th-century handwriting). Verso: at upper left, inscribed "3/1 Urtekr. Didrichsen" in graphite (19th- or 20th-century handwriting); at lower right, inscribed "9" in graphite (20th-century handwriting)
M A contributor to his own myth