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Dreyer, Dankvart (Christian Magnus)
(b Assens, Fyn, 13 June 1816; d Barløse, Fyn, 4 Nov 1852). Danish painter. From 1831 to 1837 he studied at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen under J. L. Lund (1777–1867) and C. W. Eckersberg. He concentrated on history, mythological and figure painting and won the Great Silver Medal in 1837. However, encouraged by his friend J. T. Lundbye, his chief preoccupation was landscape painting, to which he devoted himself during summers at home in Assens. His poetic approach to painting, based on the use of a delicate palette, glorified landscape subjects, which previously had been considered banal and unworthy of depiction. In View from Assens (1834; Odense, Fyn. Stiftsmus.), Dreyer depicts a scene from his native town, a cluster of houses on the shore, opposite the coast of North Slesvig, which, for all its simplicity, seems to allude to a more complex reality. He often relied on studies of details to complete his finished paintings. In one such study, a Footbridge over a Brook in Assens, Fünen (1842; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst), depicting a footbridge leading to the Assens churchyard, Dreyer describes the fall of light on the wood and leaves with an intensity and precision akin to Christian Købke.
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