Carl Frederic Aagaard

1833-1895

European Artist

Aagaard was born in Denmark. He studied drawing at the Danish Royal Academy during the time Copenhagen was the center of a spectacular resurgence of the arts led by the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and the painter Eckersberg. Aagaard began his career towards the end of this great period in Denmark, but was instructed by the country's great artists while at the Academy. It was his final teacher though, the landscape painter Peter Kristian Skoovgaard, that was to be the most influential. In 1857, Aagaard exhibited for the first time to great success. He continued to exhibit and trips to Switzerland and Italy helped to perfect his style.