Dankvart Dreyer (b. Assens 1816, d. Barløse 1852)
Purchased by Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in September 2012.
“Fynsk landskab, i baggrunden Kjærum og Ebberup banker”. Summer landscape from Funen with Kjærum and Ebberup hills in the background. 1838–1839. Signed D. (in the lower part near the edge of the frame to the left of the centre). Oil on canvas. 63×73 cm.
Leo Swane, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Dankvart Dreyer no. 55. Suzanne Ludvigsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Dankvart Dreyer no. 78.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1839 no. 77, with the title “Skovegn i Fyen” (In the woods of Funen). Kunstforeningen and Fyns Kunstmuseum, “Dreyer 1816–1852. Malerier og tegninger”, 1989, not in the catalogue. Fyns Kunstmuseum and Den Hirschsprungske Samling, “Naturfortrolighed. Dankvart Dreyer 1816–1852”, 2006–2007, no. 13, reproduced plate 15.
Literature: Leo Swane, “Dankvart Dreyer 1816–1852”, 1921 p. 49, reproduced p. 43. Thomas Bruun, “Assens - Vestfyn og Grundloven 1849”, 1999 reproduced on the cover and p. 8 (detail). Suzanne Ludvigsen, “Maleren Dankvart Dreyer”, vol. l, 2008 p. 120, reproduced p. 119. She mentions this painting as one of the first Dankvart Dreyer painted in the national romantic manner with “afvekslende Skove, Sletter, Søer og jævnt skraanende Bakker” (forests alternating with plains, lakes and sloping hills). Suzanne Ludvigsen also mentions professor J. L. Lund who tought his students, among them Dreyer, to create ideal Danish landscape paintings with scenic beauty using what is typical in the Danish countryside. The present painting lives up to that ideal.
Provenance: Bought by Kunstforeningen and won by Mr Ravn in 1840. Mr Hvidberg (1921). Miss Aase Hvidberg. ABR auction 435, 1982 no. 37, reproduced p. 13.
Dankvart Dreyer's mandatory drawing for this painting ordered by Kunstforeningen is today owned by Fuglsang Kunstmuseum.
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Paintings, 18 September 2012