This article is part of a series of articles about the Danish painter Wilhelm Marstrand (1810–73) published on the occasion of the exhibition Wilhelm Marstrand...
In 1854 the Danish newspaper Dagbladet proclaimed the existence of two factions on the Danish art scene: ‘National’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’. This article discusses Wilhelm Marstrand's...
Hans Smidth (1839-1917) was a renowned artist in his own day. However, only few of his paintings can be conclusively dated, a fact that has...
In this article, the author examines the impact of a range of Danish artists' stay in Paris from the mid-1870s to the early 1890s, where...
For more than 20 years after the end of World War II, the human figure constitutes what one might call the ‘elephant in the room’...
Around 1900, the Danish painter Kristian Zahrtmann creates a queer persona which cannot be separated from his art. In numerous paintings, he references himself, his...
The scene in Kristian Zahrtmann’s (1843-1917) Sokrates and Alkibiades, painted in 1911, is taken from Plato’s Symposium, which was one of the most widely used...
During his lifetime, Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) painted many works portraying women from the world of history and literature. What happens when the image is turned...
Kristian Zahrtmann’s (1843-1917) works allow the viewer to revel in male beauty – the paintings give generous opportunities to ogle men and their charms. Zahrtmann...
First published in Danish in Periskop. Forum for kunsthistorisk debat, 4, 1995, pp. 43-63
Five articles on Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917) as a queer artist.