Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the light : identity and place in nineteenth-century Danish art / edited by Freyda Spira, Stephanie Schrader, and Thomas Lederballe ; with contributions by Gry Hedin and Karina Lykke Grand

Author

Spira, Freyda

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2023]
• ©2023
• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Schrader, Stephanie
• Lederballe, Thomas
• Hedin, Gry
• Lykke Grand, Karina
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, issuing body.
• J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution.

Description

227 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"Denmark in the nineteenth century experienced the disastrous fallout of the Napoleonic Wars, the devastating bombardment of Copenhagen, bankruptcy, and mounting antagonism with Germany. Yet, this sociopolitical and economic tumult also gave rise to a vibrant cultural and philosophical environment for nineteenth-century Danish artists. Beyond the Light places the drawings, oil sketches, and paintings created by these artists firmly in this period, one that witnessed the transformation of a once-powerful Denmark into a small, somewhat marginalized country at the edge of Europe. Danish artists forged a close-knit community during this time, and the artworks they created explore notions of place, identity and belonging, and what it means to travel and return home. The exhibition features approximately 100 works from The Met collection, SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark, and several American collections, and highlights such artists as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Christen Købke, Constantin Hansen, Martinus Rørbye, and Vilhelm Hammershøi as well as lesser-known figures like Anton Melbye, Johan Thomas Lundbye, Peter Christian Skovgaard, and Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, among others. " -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website (viewed November 30, 2022)

Alternative Title

Identity and place in nineteenth-century Danish art

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Art, Danish > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Nature in art > Exhibitions
• Identity (Psychology) in art > Exhibitions
• ART / General
• Art, Danish
• Identity (Psychology) in art
• Nature in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 26-April 16, 2023, and at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from May 23-August 20, 2023

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index

Contents

Directors' foreword -- Introduction -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Contributors -- Denmark and the sea : defining the boundaries of a nation / Freyda Spira -- Between order and feeling : drawing in nineteenth-century Danish art / Thomas Lederballe -- Looking out/gazing in : portraits of nineteenth-century Danish artists / Stephanie Schrader -- When trees and stones speak : nature and sensitivity in nineteenth-century Danish art / Gry Hedin -- Snapshots : nineteenth-century Danish artists and travel / Karina Lykke Grand -- Plates -- List of plates -- Notes -- Selected reading Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photography credits

Call Number

N7017

ISBN

• 9781588397331
• 1588397335

OCLC

• 1341203890
• on1341203890
• SCSB-14517715

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries