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NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM ABILDGAARD (1744—1809)

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ABRAHAM
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ABILDGAARD (1744—1809)  , called " the
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Father of Danish
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Painting," was
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born at
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Copenhagen, the son of Soren
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Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute . He formed his
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style on that of
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Claude and of
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Nicolas Poussin; and was a
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cold theorist, inspired not by nature but by
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art . As a technical painter he attained remarkable success, his
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tone being very harmonious and even, but the effect, to a foreigner's
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eye, is rarely interesting . His
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works are scarcely known out of Copenhagen, where he won an immense fame in his own
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generation . He was the founder of the Danish school of painting, and the
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master of
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Thorwaldsen and
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Eckersberg .

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