Denmark Symbolism
Detlev Conrad Blunck was a German-Danish painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist.
Detlev Blunck at the beginning of his career specialized mainly in historical painting, then he moved to the domestic genre and joined the ranks of the masters of domestic realism. Later Blunck devoted his work to religious motifs and developed his own style of painting, which strongly reflected the influence of the Nazarene movement, the German Romantic painters.
Vilhelm Hammershøi was a Danish painter of predominantly interiors, a representative of the Symbolist movement.
Vilhelm studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and a few years later at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris, four of his paintings were exhibited in the Danish pavilion. Hammershøi was the last significant painter in nineteenth-century Danish art. He painted against a background of contemporary experience, but his painting never deviated from the basic rules of Danish Golden Age paintings.
At first his motifs alternated between figure and landscape painting, and later Hammershøi became truly an interior painter. Rooms became a constant source of subjects for him, and the walls and windows that form the boundary to the world almost literally became the backdrop for his paintings. People in his paintings, if present, then as silent statues, completely immersed in their thoughts. All his works, whether portraits, interiors or landscapes, are full of silence, peace and melancholy.
Kay Rasmus Nielsen is a Danish illustrator and one of the leading artists of the Golden Age of Illustration in the early 20th century. Nielsen was a prolific collaborator with the Disney Company, for which he created many narrative sketches and illustrations, including for the feature film Fantasia.
Stephan Abel Sinding is a Norwegian and Danish sculptor.
Stephan comes from a creative family, his brothers being composer Christian Sinding and painter Otto Sinding. He entered the Royal College of Drawing and studied art with Albert Wolf in Berlin. In France in 1874 he was impressed by the works of Auguste Rodin and Paul Dubois, and as a result Stephan Sinding abandoned the popular neoclassical movement of the time and moved towards a style inspired by Michelangelo, with flowing lines, raising themes of Scandinavian mythology as well as reality and eroticism.
Sinding created many realistic but also deeply symbolic sculptures, one of which, Mother in Captivity, won him the Grand Prix at the World's Fair in 1889.
In 1883 Stephan Sinding moved to Copenhagen, later becoming a Danish citizen and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 1910 he settled in Paris, where he lived and worked until his death in 1922. He became one of Norway's most famous sculptors, along with Gustav Vigeland.
Harald Slott-Möller (Danish: Harald Slott-Møller) or Georg Harald Slott-Möller was a Danish symbolist painter.
He received his artistic education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. As an adherent of the symbolist direction of painting in Denmark, together with his wife Agnes Slott-Möller, he participated in the creation of the Free Style group. Harald was also a master painter of porcelain and earthenware and worked as a designer at the earthenware factory Aluminia.
