Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light

by K. David Jackson and Kasper Monrad

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Christen Købke (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.

This beautiful book, written by leading scholars of Scandinavian art, offers an overview of Købke’s achievement within its cultural context, and also highlights the most innovative aspects of his work, including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy in the treatment of light and atmosphere, his exquisite originality, and his experimental outlook.



Published in association with the National Galleries of Scotland


Exhibition Schedule:

National Gallery, London(03/17/10-06/13/10)

National Gallery, Edinburgh(07/04/10-10/03/10)

  • ISBN10 030016663X
  • ISBN13 9780300166637
  • Publish Date 15 March 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 September 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English