Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg was one of the most important Danish painters of the 19th century. Life. Eckersberg was first educated with the painters Jess Jessen in Appenrade and Johann Jakob Jessen in Flensburg. In 1800 he received the Gesellenbrief and was admitted to the Kunstakademie in Copenhagen in 1803. In 1811 he was a pupil at Jacques-Louis David in Paris. From 1818 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie in Copenhagen from 1827 to 1829, whose director at that time were U. A. Wilhelm Benz and Karl Fred Eriks Sorensen, his students. Eckersberg is considered to be the main representative of the romantic classicist painting of the golden age of Denmark. He is buried at the Assistenzfriedhof in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro. SchülerGalerie. . . . . .