The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

ART BUILDING 95 of the world of Northern gods and heroes is Lorenz Frøli ch (b. 1820). The greatest part of his productions consist in drawings for illustration, water-color paintings and etchings. An uncommon de- corative talent and a highly developed sense of the graceful often dis- tinguish the works of Frølich. He has spent a great deal of his life in Paris where his books for children and his charming etchings of the story of Amor and Psyche have met with a well merited appreciation; altogether he occupies a- noteworthy position of his own in Danish art. After the flowering of Danish painting before and in the middle of this century a duller period followed in zuhich only a smaller number of prominent talents arose. Certain technical weaknesses cropped up: too ■ much conventionalism in the coloring and treatment, besides wrong and narrozu-minded notions as to the construction of a picture. In their eager, fine and victorious endeavors to obtain national independence Danish painters had broken off all communication with foreign countries; it was generally in Italy exclusively that Danish artists had become acquainted with modern foreign art. It was in Italy that Carl Bloch (1834—1830) attained a proficiency that enabled him to give his pictures a power and brilliancy in pictural effect till then unknown in our art, and his powerful pictures of »Samson in the tread mill«, »fairi daughter«, »Prometheus unbound«, and »King Christian II in his prison« called forth, and rightly so, an outburst of surprise and admiration. Besides a great number of religious pictures he has painted genre pictures from Italy and Denmark and, towards the close of his life, given us a number of etchings full of deep feeling. It is, on the other hand, Otto Bache’s (b. 1833) stay in Paris, where he has studied, that has devel- oped him into a brilliant pictural technicist. The best of his paintings are representations of animals or, at least, pictures where animals play a prominent part. Later on a number of landscape painters, Niss (b. 1842), Zacho (b. 1843), Godfred Christensen (b. 1843), Rud. Bissen (b. 1846),