The (Re)birth of Genre Painting during the Danish Golden Age The Case of the Studio ‘Portrait’

In standard twentieth-century accounts of the state painting during Danish Golden Age (1801-1864), genre is seldom credited with any share painterly innovativeness period. And although contemporary attempts at a scholarly revision have done much to remedy this situation, usually not considered outside its immediate historical context. contrast, article, which focuses on art students each other in their studios, argues that was driving force Romantic turn painting. It concerns series interconnected paintings from late 1820s, painted by Wilhelm Bendz, Ditlev Blunck and Albert Küchler, it these works only stand relation past examples Dutch Age, they also reinvent conventional concepts image Romanticism. Furthermore, canvases testify an intense aesthetic exchange between theatre painting, argued, substantiated reference outputs poet playwright Henrik Hertz philosopher F. C. Sibbern. Whilst reciprocity constituted rapprochement realism, no means implies studio ‘portrait’ just outcome interest quotidian; fact, argued term ‘reality effect’ might better explain artistic ambition work. Lastly, article makes case for interpretation as being equally indebted to, compositionally carefully balanced between, conventionality experimentation.