Christen Købke, 1833 - View from a Window in Toldbodvej Looking towards the - fine art print

This more than 180 years old painting with the title View from a Window in Toldbodvej Looking towards the was made by Christen Købke in 1833. The artwork is included in the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s digital collection, which is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are happy to mention that the public domain piece of art is being included with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.Also, the work of art has the creditline: . In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a ratio of 16 : 9, meaning that the length is 78% longer than the width. The painter Christen Købke was a European artist from Denmark, whose style can be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist artist lived for a total of 38 years - born in the year 1810 in Copenhagen and died in the year 1848.

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Købke spent most of his childhood at the Citadel in Copenhagen where his father was a baker. In 1832 he rented a studio on Toldbodvej (now Esplanaden), which offered him a new view on his childhood home. From the studio window he could look over the neighbour opposite to the Citadel.

The pictorial effect It was not, however, the home as such that interested the artist; his main concern was for pictorial effect. Above the treetops he could see the Citadel mill, the ridge turret of the Citadel Church, the red rooftops of the military buildings, and the Oresund coastline in the far distance. In order to create depth in the small picture he added the edge of the neighbouring house’s roof and a chimney in the foreground. The chimney in particular is quite a stroke of genius, testifying to artistic boldness.

The chimney's central position It is unlikely that any other Danish painter working at the time would have let something as unimportant as a chimney occupy such a central postion in a picture. To Købke, however, the reasons were clear. Without the chimney in the foreground the rest of the picture would not make sense. The sky arching overhead is, however, every bit as important as the view of the Citadel. Købke was clearly keenly interested in the cloud formations with their many, endless varied hues.

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