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| Zahrtmann in his studio with the model for the two paintings, circa 1913. Photograph monogrammed and dated by the artist. |
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Kristian Zahrtmann (Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, 31 March 1843, Rønne – 22 June 1917, Frederiksberg), Danish painter. He was a part of the late nineteenth-century Danish artistic generation which broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, in favor of naturalism and realism. He taught for many years and had a far-reaching effect on the development of Danish art through his support of individual style among his students. He produced work in many genres: portraits, folk scenes, interiors, landscapes; he was particularly known for his history paintings. And in the last decades of his life his work became bolder, vividly colored, with strong homoerotic overtones.
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| Self-portrait, 1916 - the year before his death. |
