Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1843 - A Danish Coast. View from Kitnæs by the Roskilde Fjord - fine art print

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The concepts of “nation” and “people” were avidly discussed during the 1830s and 1840s. J.Th. Lundbye was particularly influenced by the art historian N.L. Høyen’s (1798-1870) programme for Danish painting and its contributions to building national pride and self-awareness.

When, in 1842, he decided to depict a Danish coastline in an unusually monumental format, the scene was to represent the quintessential characteristic of the Danish countryside: the extensive coastlines. The scene does not, in fact, depict a single, specific site, the main motif is based on cliffs that the artist saw and sketched at the Roskilde Fjord. He adapted these cliffs,making them rather more monumental, and combined them with scenes from elsewhere.

Work progressed slowly due to Lundbye’s characteristic self-doubt and scruples, but also as a result of interference from several selfappointed advisors, including Høyen. The artist was frustrated by his tendency to overdo details such as the vegetation in the foreground or a single cloud, and he remarked on this ineffectualness by painting a hidden autobiographical commentary in the centre of the picture where two men stand by a cart: ”I am like that cart,my dear friend. A wheel is broken and now I can proceed no further; the other turns as ever,but cannot serve to move the cart one inch.”

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In 1843 the artist Johan Thomas Lundbye created this piece of art. Nowadays, this artwork is included in the digital art collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). We are delighted to state that this public domain artwork is supplied with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.Also, the artpiece has the following creditline: . Moreover, alignment is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Johan Thomas Lundbye was a European artist, whose artistic style can primarily be assigned to Romanticism. The Danish painter was born in the year 1818 in Kalundborg, Sj?lland, Denmark and deceased at the age of 30 in 1848.

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