Frederik Vermehren (1823-1910)

Aliases: E. Vermehren; Frits Vermehren; Joh. Frederik Nikolai Vermehren; Johan Frederik Nicolai Vermehren

Professions: Painter

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  Frederik Vermehren: Outside a whitewashed house with a thatch roof.

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  Frederik Vermehren: Portrait of an elderly woman.

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Frederik Vermehren Biography

(b Ringsted, 12 May 1823; d Copenhagen, 10 Jan 1910). Danish painter. He trained from 1844 at the Akademi for de Skønne Kunster in Copenhagen, where he was taught by C. W. Eckersberg. At the same time he also took lessons with the painter Jørgen Pedersen Roed, whom he had known since childhood. With artists such as Julius Exner (1825–1910) and Christian Dalsgaard (1824–1907), Vermehren was part of the National Romanticism movement of the mid-19th century, which was influenced by the Danish art historian N. L. Høyen. Artists were encouraged to go into the countryside to study the peasantry, and Vermehren went to Jutland where he painted Jutland Shepherd on the Moors (1855; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst.). The painting typifies his interest in depicting man in close contact with nature, particularly the more picturesque side of peasant life.

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