KRISTOFFER See also:

• KRISTOFFER ECKERSBERG (1783-1853)

ECKERSBERG (1783-1853)  , Danish painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south See also:

• JUTLAND (Danish Jylland)

Jutland . He became successively the See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Nikolaj See also:

• ABILDGAARD, NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM (1744—1809)

Abildgaard and of J . L . See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David . From 18io to '1813 he lived at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris under the direction of the latter, and then proceeded, as an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent artist, to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, where he worked until 1816 in See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close fellowship with See also:

• THORWALDSEN, BERTEL (1770.1844)

Thorwaldsen . His paintings from this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period—" The Spartan Boy," " Bacchus and See also:

• ARIADNE (in Greek mythology)

Ariadne and Ulysses "—testify to the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the See also:

• GREAT

great sculptor over the See also:

• ART

art of See also:

• ECKERSBERG, KRISTOFFER (1783-1853)

Eckersberg . Returning to See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, he found himself easily able to take the first See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the Danish painters of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and his portraits especially were in extreme popularity . It is claimed for Eckersberg by the native critics that " he created a Danish See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour," that is to say, he was the first painter who threw off conventional tones and the pseudo-classical landscape, in See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange for the clear See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere and natural outlines of Danish scenery . But See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark has no heroic landscape, and Eckersberg in losing the See also:

• GOLDEN

golden commonplaces scarcely succeeds in being delightful . His landscapes, however, are pure and true, while in his figure-pieces he is almost invariably conventional and old-fashioned . He was See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Danish See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of See also:

• FINE

Fine Arts in See also:

• CHARLOTTENBURG

Charlottenburg .