Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Weilbach's Biographical Dictionary of Artists) is a Danish biographical dictionary of artists and architects. The current edition, which is also freely accessible online, contains the biographies of some 8,000 Danish artists and architects. [1]
The first edition, Dansk Konstnerlexikon (1878), [2] was the work of Philip Weilbach which he expanded into the two-volume Nyt dansk Kunstnerlexikon in 1897. [3] In subsequent editions, it became the standard reference work on all notable Danish artists and architects. The third edition, under the auspices of a committee, was published in three volumes (1947–1952) and was said to provide biographical details and information on Danish artists including painters, architects, sculptors, conservators, stonemasons, engineers, lithographers, engravers, stucco artists and miniaturists. [4]
The fourth edition of Weilbach, edited by Sys Hartmann, was published in nine volumes in 1994–2000 with the biographies of almost 8,000 artists and architects. [5]
Since 1996, an online, freely accessible digitized version of the fourth edition has been available as the major component of Kunstindeks Danmark. [6]
Christen Schiellerup Købke was a Danish painter and one of the best known artists from the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Laurits Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology. He painted also many altarpieces and portraits, including the monumental oil painting The Danish Constituent Assembly between 1861 and 1865.
Vilhelm Lauritzen was a leading Danish modern architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.
Johan Thomas Lundbye was a promising young Danish painter and graphic artist, known for his animal and landscape paintings. He was artistically inspired by Niels Laurits Høyen's call to develop a Danish nationalistic art by exploring as motif the characteristic landscapes, the historical buildings and monuments, and the simple, rural people of Denmark. He became one of his generation’s national romantic painters, along with P. C. Skovgaard and Lorenz Frølich, to regularly depict the landscape of Zealand.
Christian August Lorentzen was a Danish painter.
Ejler Andreas Christoffer Jorgensen aka Eiler Jørgensen was a Danish-American landscape and portrait painter
Johannes Larsen was a Danish nature painter.
Aage Giødesen was a Danish painter who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is mainly known for landscapes, as well as for portraits and marine subjects.
Georg Hilker was a Danish decorative painter active during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century. He collaborated with painter Constantin Hansen (1804–1880).
Adam August Müller, a Danish history painter, was one of Eckersberg's favourite students. Generally unhealthy and dead at 32, his work is recognized as an important component in Danish art. His favourite subjects were historical and religious themes.
Emil Blichfeldt was a Danish architect who worked in the Historicist style.
De Tretten, also De Tretten Kunstnere, was a grouping of young Danish artists who arranged their own exhibitions in Copenhagen from 1909 to 1912 in order to display works which would not have been accepted for exhibition by the then rather traditional Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Jørgen Boberg was a self-taught Surrealist Danish painter and illustrator.
Pietro Købke Krohn was a Danish painter, illustrator, theatre director and museum director. He is remembered above all for his work together with Otto Haslund, illustrating Johan Krohn's book Peters Jul
Edma Cornelia Vilhelmine Frølich Stage, also Edma Stage, was a French-born, Danish painter who worked mainly in pastels.
Frederik Christian Jakobsen Kiærskou, aka F.C. Kiærskou was a Danish landscape painter.
Marie Henriques was a Danish painter who created landscapes, figure paintings and portraits, initially in the Realist style but increasingly under the influence of Impressionism. She also painted watercolours of ancient architecture and sculpture. In 1934, she was a founding member of the Society of Women Artists .
Catherine (Cathinca) Caroline Engelhart Amyot (1845–1926) was a Danish painter who specialized in portraits and genre works. She travelled widely, creating a number of works of historical interest. In 1869 she began exhibiting in Düsseldorf and Copenhagen. After marrying the English physician, Thomas Amyon, from 1879 to 1890 she exhibited frequently in the Paris Salon and in London's Royal Academy of Arts.
Johanne Cathrine Krebs was a Danish painter and women's rights activist. She was known for her portrait painting. She was active in establishing the women's department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.