Vilhelm Kyhn
Danish artist (1819-1903) · Denmark · On the map · Artists · Died at 84
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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Anna Ancher Studied under Vilhelm
Vilhelm Hammershøi Studied under Vilhelm
Karl Madsen Studied under Vilhelm
Emilie Mundt Studied under Vilhelm
Marie Luplau Studied under Vilhelm
Georg Achen Studied under Vilhelm
Johanne Cathrine Krebs Studied under Vilhelm
Pauline Thomsen Studied under Vilhelm
Hans Smidth Studied under Vilhelm
Nicoline Tuxen Studied under Vilhelm
Christian Zacho Studied under Vilhelm
Edvard Petersen Studied under Vilhelm
Louise Ravn-Hansen Studied under Vilhelm
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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
About this person
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.
Country
Denmark
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1819 to 1903 · aged 84
