Christen Købke, self portrait, c.1833
I previously wrote about the pleasure of having the opportunity to visit the exhibition of works by the Danish artist Christen Købke, (1810-1848), considered the greatest painter during Demark's Golden Age of artistic development, (approximately the first half of the C19th) . What attracted me most was the extraordinary attention to detail, and the effective usage of light.
A group of Danish painters in Rome, 1837 by Constantin Hansen. Købke made a (more brief) pilgrimage in 1838, for two years.
That his talent should be so obvious from one so young, (his portrait of his friend Sødring was made when he was 22), and that he lived such a short life, are two more remarkable facts about a man whom it appears was modest in the extreme. Talent and modesty seem to me to be rather attractive attributes, and a rare combination to find these days.
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