Christen Købke

Danish Artist · 1810–1848

4 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture

Christen Schjellerup Købke, the son of a baker, entered art school in Copenhagen at age eleven and studied there for ten years. He continued studying both with a teacher and from nature, first making sketches outdoors and later reworking them into oil paintings in his studio. Købke combined an interest in light and atmosphere with an appreciation for Denmark's medieval monuments to create solemn a