- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (Aug 24 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 030016663X
- ISBN-13: 978-0300166637
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #462,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Christen Købke (1819–1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark’s “Golden Age,” the period of the nation’s supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and delicacy, without resorting to the artificial rhetoric of academic traditions. He endowed ordinary people and places, and simple motifs, with a universal significance; a world in microcosm.
This beautiful book, written by leading scholars of Scandinavian art, offers an overview of Købke’s achievement within its cultural context, and also highlights the most innovative aspects of his work, including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy in the treatment of light and atmosphere, his exquisite originality, and his experimental outlook.
About the Author
David Jackson is head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at Leeds University. Kasper Monrad is chief curator at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
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Beautiful Book on Little Known Artist, July 30 2010
By Yazdikhast - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light (Hardcover)
This is a well executed book which accompanies an exhibit that was first in London at the National Gallery and is now at the National Gallery of Scotland (until 3 Oct 10). Kobke is hardly known outside his native Denmark. His career never really took off and he died at age 38. His subjects were the scenes and people of everyday life - there is nothing dramatic or striking among them. So why has he suddenly begun to rise in stature over the past few decades? Part of the reason is his mastery of the variable light that characterizes northern climes. It has the same plein air virtues that adorned another excellent work on northern Europe, Baltic Light. Another part is the sense that one could almost step into his paintings and walk down the street or climb the hill or buy a cigar from the vendor. Indeed, one would happily do so. The settings look pleasant and the people approachable, much like ourselves and not mysterious creatures from two centuries ago. But his work is not all landscapes and townscapes. There are portraits, interior architectural studies, etc.The abundant illustrations in the book capture Kobke's quiet skill very well, not something that can be automatically assumed, given the variables in full color reproduction. Its other strength is the narrative by curator David Jackson. You need not be an art history major (I'm not), or indeed know much about art (I don't), to benefit from his informative but accessible text. He seems to assume that the reader will not know much about the man or the times he lived in, but his approach says "don't worry about it - nobody else does either, and it's really a shame. Let show you why." And then he does. I don't mean to suggest that the work is too simple for those who know art history well. I suspect they too will enjoy the work and benefit from its contents.
I close by noting that Amazon's price at the moment ($31.50) is a bargain. I've seen it elsewhere for as much as $60.
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Denmark's Rembrandt, July 4 2011
By Nathanael Greene "targeted father" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light (Hardcover)
This book is about Denmark's indisputably greatest painter, whose artistic genius is not even widely recognized by the Danish public, which has another Danish painter who is the Danish public's favorite.The Danes have this dismissive idea that if something is Danish, no non-Dane will pay any attention to it. Well, the extremely influential elite of the international art "world" has become extremely interested in this Danish painter, with the result that world art auction prices for this Danish artist's paintings have rocketed through the roof. Danish museums cannot remotely afford to acquire this Danish artist's paintings, at world prices. Some of this artist's greatest masterpieces are now in foreign museums.
This book's major virtue is that it contains photos of a number of this artist's paintings I never knew existed. Although this Danish painter's total work product is numerically small, and for years I thought I had seen all of this artist's paintings, this book proves me wrong.
One puzzling feature of this otherwise comprehensive book is that it does not contain a photo of a excellent painting - it's a finished painting, not a preliminary study - by this painter that is in the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. I saw this painting with my own eyes. If fact, no Danish, no Scandinavian, and no other relevant publication I have ever seen has contained a photo of this painter's painting located in Toledo, Ohio. This omission is important because this painter's total numerical production is so small.
This artist's painting in the Toledo Museum of Art is from this painter's Italian sojourn, which produced paintings of this master's usual technical ability, but which did not match the overall quality of this artist's paintings in Denmark, of Denmark. This artist's paintings of Denmark are this painter's masterworks, his masterpieces - and some of the best of these masterworks are now in foreign art museums.
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