Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light

by David Jackson and Kasper Monrad

Book Overview

Christen K bke (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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030016663X
• ISBN13: 9780300166637
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.8"