AAGAARD, Carl Frederik
AAGAARD, Carl Frederik (b. 1833, Odense, d. 1895, København) Deer beside a Lake 1888 Oil on canvas, 53 x 82 cm Private collection The Rose Garden 1877 Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm Private collection Lodge on Lake Como Danish painter. He left his small town for Denmark's capital to study drawing at the Danish Royal Academy; Copenhagen was the centre of a spectacular resurgence of the arts. The art of the first half of the 19th century in Copenhagen was perhaps the greatest achievement of Denmark's Golden Age. The sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and the painter Eckersberg led an artistic renaissance during the Golden Age that produced, with the establishment of an academy in Charlottenborg in 1754, the artists Christen Købke, Jens Juel, Constantin Hansen, Martinus Rørbye, Johan Lundbye, Wilhelm Bendz, and Emanuel Larsen to name a few. The Royal Collections, what was later to become the National Collec...