Edvard Petersen (4 February 1841 – 5 December 1911) was a
Danish painter. He also designed the
Stork Fountain on
Amagertorv in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
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[Petersen, Edvard Frederik ''Dansk biografisk Lexikon'' Access date January 1, 2021]
Biography
From 1851 he attended the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In the 1860s and 1870s he painted romantic landscape paintings under influence of
Vilhelm Kyhn.
He was a close friend of fellow painter
Theodor Philipsen and together they went on several travels, including two stays in
Italy
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between 1875 and 1880 and a visit to
France
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.
The friendship did not seem to influence Petersen's rather conservative style of painting and his works from the times abroad are generally traditional paintings of local life.
In the 1880s Petersen painted a number of figure paintings of street life in Copenhagen under influence of
French Realism. His most famous paintings are ''Emigrants on Larsens Plads'' (1890) and ''A Return, the America Liner at Larsens Plads'' (1894).
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With his Stork Fountain proposal, Petersen won the competition for the design of a new fountain on Amagertorv in Copenhagen in 1888. The sculptor Vilhelm Bissen moulded the birds and the fountain was inaugurated in 1904.][
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Gallery
File:Torvet i Sulmona (Petersen).jpg, ''The square in Sulmona''
File:Edvard Petersen - Højbro Plads.jpg, ''Farmers' wives at Højbro Plads'' (1883)
File:Edvard Petersen - Udvandrere på Larsens Plads (1890).jpg, ''Emigrants at Larsens Plads'' (1890)
File:Ved Capucinerklostret i Rom (Petersen).jpg, ''At the Capuchin Monastery in Rome'' (1911)
See also
* List of Danish painters
This is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark:
A
* Axel Aabrink (1887–1965)
* Jørgen Aabye (1868–1959)
* Carl Frederik Aagaard (1833–1895)
* Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1744 ...
* Art of Denmark
Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. For many early periods, it is usually considered a ...
References
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19th-century Danish painters
Danish male painters
20th-century Danish painters
1841 births
1911 deaths
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
19th-century Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists