BIOGRAFIE
1810 | Born in Hamburg, Germany |
1831 | Moved to Dresden to study with Johan Christian Dahl |
1834 | Moved to Copenhagen to continue his artistic education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts |
1836 | Traveled back to Germany to study in Leipzig |
1838 | Returned to Denmark and became a Danish citizen |
1845 | Spent a year in Italy after traveling throughout Sweden, Germany, and Austria |
1846 | Appointed court painter to King Christian VIII of Denmark |
1851 | Immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn |
1855 | Hired by William Kitchell to create etchings documenting the economic geology of New Jersey. These etchings were published in The Second Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey for the Year 1855 |
1866 | Left the Brooklyn Art Association, and, along with twenty-three other artists, founded the Brooklyn Academy of Design |
1867 | Died in Brooklyn |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2005 | The Schwartz Gallery |
1997 | Westmoreland Museum of American Art |
1973 | Smithsonian American Art Museum |
1876 | Maryland Historical Society |
1867 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
1866 | Utica Art Association |
1865 - 1866 | National Academy of Design |
1861 - 1862 | Boston Athenæum |
1859 - 1868 | Brooklyn Art Association |
1857 - 1859 | National Academy of Design |
1855 | National Academy of Design Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
1853 | National Academy of Design |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Brooklyn Museum, NY Harvard University Art Museums, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Orlando Museum of Art, FL Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Yale University Art Gallery, CT |