Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough.
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Jutland woodlands, painted by Kyhn in 1845 near Silkeborg and exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1845
Young Boy Seated on a Wall Overlooking Capri, one of Kyhn's relatively few paintings from his travels
View over Vejle Fjord, 1854
The Painter Vilhelm Kyhn Smoking his Pipe, painting by Anna Ancher, his best-known student from the Painting School for WomenAwards 3
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About this person
Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outlived many of his artistic peers by several decades, he remained a traditionalist and expressed strong criticism of many of the new trends in the painting of his day.
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Artists
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Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1819 to 1903 · aged 84
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