Carsten Henrichsen Explained

Carsten Henrichsen (23 September 1824 - 30 April -1897) was a Danish landscape painter.

Biography

Henrichsen was born into a working-class family in Copenhagen in 1824. He at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1840 to 1845 and took drawing lessons with Frederik Ferdinand Helsted in 1845 - 40.^[1]

From the late 1840s, he created vast number of paintings from Copenhagen and North Zealand. He received the Neuhausen Award in 1855 and a grant from the Academy in 1858.

Selected works

• Broen over Stadsgraven ved Nørreport (1848, Øregaard Museum)
• Udsigt fra Fortunen over Bernstorff mod Gentofte og København (1853)
• Prospekt af Roskilde med Domkirken (1857, Frederiksborg Museum)
• Amagerport (1860, Museum of Copenhagen)
• Ved Frihedsstøtten (c. 1860, Museum of Copenhagen)
• Strandgade, Sandvig (1872, Bornholms Kunstmuseum)
• Kobberdammen ved Hellebæk (1878, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Roskilde Museum, Vejle Kunstmuseum)

External links

• Carsten Henrichsen at Kunstindeks Danmark
• Carsten Henrichsen at Artnet

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carten Henrichsen - uddannelse. Danish. Kunstindeks Danmark. 18 September 2016.