Carl Bloch

Carl Heinrich Bloch ( * May 23, 1834 in Copenhagen, † February 22, 1890 ) was a Danish painter.

Bloch should become a sailor at first, but betrayed early an excellent plant for painting and attended since 1849, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in his native city. From 1854-1859 he created a series partly serious, partly humorous and idyllic genre scenes from the Danish People's Life ( A thunderstorm at losbrechendem the return of the men expected fishing family, Sunday afternoon, The little Potato Eaters, etc.).

Then he lingered 1859-65 in Italy, where he painted genre pictures related direction of the Italian people living in what is a flick networks forming fisherman in Sorrento distinguished. Even during the last period of his stay in Rome, Bloch turned with his great composition Samson at the mill with the Philistines (1863 ) the history specialist to. In the following year he completed a The Raising of Jairus's daughter. Both paintings found wide acclaim in the artist's home and were purchased for the National Gallery at the Christiansborg Palace.

Even greater fame earned him the 1865 for the royal castle to Athens executed colossal image The Liberation of Prometheus. Bloch was elected member of the Academy and received simultaneously by a wealthy private person commissioned to paint 22 New Testament subjects for the Betkammer of restored after the fire of Frederiksborg Castle. Most of them were already completed. The Annunciation, Mary's visit to Elizabeth, The Wedding at Cana are full of deep, genuine religious feeling. Since 1865, Bloch lived again in Copenhagen, where he joined the acquaintance of the young poet Holger Drachmann. In addition to several large historical paintings ( Noels Ebbesen and Count Gerhard, Christian II as a prisoner in the castle of Sonderborg, Samson and Delilah, the latter in 1884 destroyed the burning of the Christiansborg Palace ), he still created a number of Roman and Danish genre paintings ( The chicken rupfende monk, The street barber, The disturbed nap, The maid at the kitchen stove, fishing boy, the old inn guest, etc. ) and some altarpieces, of which the resurrection of Christ ( Jacob's Church in Copenhagen) is the most important. During his genre paintings are characterized very much alive, suffering his religious paintings by stiffness of the form hand signals.

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The whereabouts of the paintings or collections relating to the year 1889.