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Lundbye, Johan Thomas
(b Kalundborg, 1 Sept 1818; d Bedsted, 25 April 1848). Danish painter. He studied at the Kongelige Akademi for de Skønne Kunster, Copenhagen, under Johan Ludvig Lund (1777–1867) and the animal painter Christian Holm (1804–46) between 1832 and 1842. Early on he was influenced by the ideas of the art historian N. L. Høyen, especially his concept of a truly national school of landscape painting. Kalundborg Church (1837; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst) depicts a historical monument familiar to all Danes, and one that had a particular nostalgic attraction for a painter born in Kalundborg. The picture is both sharply naturalistic and emphatically painterly. In Landscape Near Arresø (1838; Copenhagen, Thorvaldsens Mus.) Lundbye was more occupied with the representation of light and space. There is no anecdotal element; the lake, the open sky, the low hills, the ancient cairn, the cattle and the playing children sum up a typical Danish summer landscape. His larger canvases emphasize openness; flat expanses of land terminate in low tree-fringed horizons below vast skies. They have little of Constable’s temperament or the broadness of Corot but are close to the elegiac mood of Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl. Danish landscape painting during the mid-1830s was greatly influenced by Romanticism; Danish and German Romantic literature was an important element in the nationalist movement of those years.
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