Returning Home (1800's)

Petersen, Edvard Frederik (1841 - 1911)

Returning Home

Oil on Canvas: 20 x 16
Catalog# PETED-004

Late 1800's

Artist: Edvard Frederik Petersen (1841-1911)

  • Born February 4, 1941 in Copenhagen DK, son of Zacharias Pedersen and Emilie Sophie Thortsen. He died May 12th, 1911.

Education:

  • 1851 - Royal Danish Academy of Art
  • 1858 - Plaster & Gypsom School
  • 1860 - Modeling Academy (Silver Medal)
  • 1866 - Studied under P.C. Skovgaard & Vilhelm Kyhn (Silver Medal)
  • 1875 - 1880 - Studied in Holland, Belgium, Paris, Switzerland and Italy
  • 1882 - Artist Modeling Academy
  • 1884-1885 - Studied in Italy
  • 1894 - Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art

Travels:

  • 1875 - Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Italy
  • 1876 - Frascati & Palestrina, Italy
  • 1878, 80, 84-85 - Anticoli, Italy

Exhibits:

  • 1859-75, 1877-91, 1893-1912 - Charlottenborg Palace Spring Exhibitions
  • 1882, 42 - Artist Association Exhibits
  • 1883, 88 - Nordic Art Exhibit
  • 1895 - Glasgow Exhibit, Chicago
  • 1901 - Town Hall Exhibit, Copenhagen
  • 1909 - Glaspalast Exhibit, Munich
  • 1916, 56 - Separate Exhibit, National Association of Art
  • 1926, 60 - Association of National Artist Exhibit
  • 1931 - Forum Exhibition, Charlottenborg Palace
  • 1983 - “Back then…” Art Association Exhibit

Positions & Appointments:

  • 1891 - Committee Member of the Royal Art Academy
  • 1892 - Council Member pf the Royal Art Academy
  • 1893 - National Art Grading Commission
  • 1894 - Titular Professor at the Royal Art Academy
  • 1896-99 - Member of the National Exhibition Commission

Awards:

  • 1866-67, 1875-77 - Royal Academy of Art Medals
  • 1867, 73 - Neuhausens Prize
  • 1868, 70 - Sodrings Prize
  • 1883 - Michael Ancher Medal
  • 1890 - Years Medal
  • 1891 - 2 Eckersberg Medals
  • 1907 - Self Portrait hung at Charlottenborg Palace

*Edvard Petersen began his career with landscape motives and later became recognized for his genre pieces.