Henrik Olrik (b. Copenhagen 1830, d. s.p. 1890)
Portrait of Georg Christian Freund (1821–1900). Signed and dated H. Olrik 1859. Pencil on paper. Sheet size 28×22 cm. Unframed.
Exhibited: The Nivaagaard Collection, “Venskabsportrætter fra Rom”, 2016, Cat. No. 45, mentioned p. 66, ill. p. 67.
Provenance: Circolo Scandinavo / Skandinavisk Forening i Rom (Inv. No. A 32).
Henrik Olrik and Georg Christian Freund met during their studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Freund, who was born in Altona, came to Copenhagen in 1836 to study as a sculptor under his uncle Hermann Ernst Freund (1786–1840). But after only a short time he was admitted to the Academy, where both Freund and Olrik were students of the sculptor Hermann Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1860).
While Freund continued to train as a sculptor, Olrik was influenced by the currents of the romantic nationalism of the 1850s and began to take an interest in painting. The present portrait of Olrik's old student friend Freund is from the first stay of both in Rome (Olrik 1858–59; Freund 1854–60), and it is therefore one of the first of many portraits that Olrik was to produce during his career.
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