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Renbjærg Tileworks by Flensburg Fiord
C.W. Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)
1830
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 22.5 cm, width 32.5 cm, height 31.8 cm, width 41 cm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
While travelling in late May 1830 to the place of his birth and childhood, Eckersberg visited a friend who owned the Renbjærg tile works. Eckersberg used this opportunity to paint the tile works from a nearby hill – essentially picking the first subject that came to hand. However, the chance to offset the red tile roofs of these buildings against the green grass of the hills undoubtedly proved decisive for him. The impression of a fierce wind – producing white-crested waves in the fiord – is corroborated by diary entries stating that on the second day of working he had to abandon his painting due to a storm (Eckersberg, 2009, 402). For this reason he had to postpone completion of the painting until he was back in Copenhagen. This painting is the only landscape that Eckersberg exhibited after his return from Rome (Copenhagen, 1831, cat. 3).
