Today will be the first of several series featuring important figures from Danish art. Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) was a pre-eminent figure in late 19th and early 20th Denmark, not only completing a number of successful works himself, but also by teaching and mentoring. We will be looking at his male nudes and semi-nudes today. I don't have a photographer attribution for the photo above, but the handsome portrait below is by Johan Rohde from 1896.
Reminds me some of Jean Sibelius-Dee Exx
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ReplyDeleteZahrtmann was fortunate to be very well educated in art and to spearhead the more natural and realist approach.
He taught at the Kunstnernes Frie Studieskolar that was created as a protest against the restrictive National Art Academy. He made numerous forays to Italy where he established an art colony in the town of Civita d'Antino, he later named his house in Frederiksberg, Casa d'Antino.
In turn all this led to the foundations of Scandinavian Expressionism and Impressionism in art.