Heinrich Buntzen (1803-1892) Artist's House Near Charlottenlund

Heinrich BUNTZEN
(Kiel 1803 – Frederiksvaerk 1892)
Artist's house near Charlottenlund
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
H. 54 cm; L. 52 cm
Signed lower left

Buntzen began his apprenticeship in his hometown of Kiel, with the Bünsow painter brothers, before moving to the Danish capital at the age of eighteen. There he took courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with the masters of the time, Lund and Moller, and exhibited for the first time in Charlottenborg in 1824. The royal family and the Academy regularly purchased his works from 1830 A few years later he moved with his wife to a small house outside Charlottenlund, which he painted in our painting. He stayed several times in Italy thanks to travel grants obtained in Denmark and on his permanent return in 1842 became a professor at the Academy.

Our oil on paper has a completely Danish spirit, focusing on one detail, that of the barrier closing access to the artist's house. Are we on the chicken coop side since very little grass seems to be left in the area? The trees, very present in Buntzen's works, take pride of place here, obscuring the initial subject which is the wooden house. The latter shows us some small elements of its popular architecture.