Ditlev Blunck

Detlev Conrad Blunck ( born June 22, 1798 in Münster bei Itzehoe, † January 7, 1853 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Blunck was the son of Ferry farmer Hans Blunck and his wife Dorothea Hansen. With 16 years Blunck came in 1816 as students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and stayed there until 1818. Connecting he went on the advice of his teachers to Munich and was at the academy for two years a pupil of Johann Peter von Langer.

In early summer 1820 Blunck returned to Copenhagen and enrolled again at the Academy of Fine Arts; his teachers were the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckerberg and Johann Ludwig Lund ( 1777-1867 ). 1827 Blunck took part in the big annual exhibition of the Academy of Art and one of his works was awarded a gold medal.

1828 Blunck began an extended study trip, which took him from Berlin, Dresden and Munich to Rome. According to his own statements, he was mainly inspired by the works of Perugino and Raphael. In Rome he made the acquaintance of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, who immediately introduced him to his circle of artists. Blunck was also included as a member of the Ponte Molle Society. Were interrupted his years in Rome only by an almost year-long stay in Venice and Florence.

In the early summer of 1838 Blunck returned to Copenhagen, where he lived for two years. In 1840 he went to Berlin and in the following year to Munich. Between 1842 and 1846 lived and worked in Vienna Blunck; a time to him (according to his own statement ) due to the political situation is not liked, but was artistically fruitful.

1846 Blunck returned back to Berlin and went in the following year again for almost a year to Vienna. The painter Christian Carl Magnussen persuaded Blunck to participate as members of a volunteer corps at the Schleswig-Holstein war. During this time made ​​it even Blunck, so to speak, to paint "on the side ".