Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765 - 1833)

Gerhard Ludvig Lahde

Gerhard Ludvig Lahde was a Danish painter, engraver and publisher.

Lahde studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, worked as a jeweler and portrait painter, creating many portraits of prominent people of his time. But Lahde was mainly concerned with depicting Danish civil and military costumes, street vendors and small merchants. In collaboration with the artist Johannes Zenn, he created a series of hand-colored, somewhat caricatured reproductions of traditional costumes, and also worked on depictions of major historical events, such as the Copenhagen fire of 1795 and the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1801 and 1807.