page_title: Johan Ludwig Lund
section_title: Student travels
hierarchical_section_title: Johan Ludwig Lund / Student travels
context_page_description: Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund, Danish painter, was born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein, to master painter Hans Giewert Lund and his wife Maria Magdalena Christina Bremer. An adherent of romanticism, he is known for his history paintings.
context_section_description: He was friends with Caspar David Friedrich, another student at the Academy and likeminded fellow-romanticist, and traveled with him to Dresden, Germany in 1799 to continue his studies at the Dresden Academy.  From there he went on to Paris, where he studied under Jacques-Louis David from 16 September 1800 to April 1802.  During this time, he also took excursions to Switzerland and Lake Maggiore (August–October 1801).
  He went on to Italy in 1802, first to Florence and then to Rome, where he lived from 1802 to 1810.  In Florence he was deeply affected by the religious art prior to Raphael’s time.  He was part of the expatriate colony of Danish and German artists and scientists in Italy, which included Friederike Brun, Charlotte Humboldt, Georg Zoëga and Bertel Thorvaldsen. Cultured, talented and sociable, he secured himself many important contacts during this time, including those within the Danish royal house.
  From 1804 to 1807, he received stipends from the Academy, inclusive a travel allowance to support his stay in Italy, between 1804 and 1806.
  During that time and also years later during a subsequent stay in Rome, he associated himself with the German painters known as the Nazarenes, a group of romantic painters headed by Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius.  He studied with them the early Italian style of painting, which was then considered primitive.
  In 1803 and 1804 he painted a large picture, "Andromache i Afmagt ved Synet af Hectors mishandlede Lig" ("Andromache, Powerless at the Sight of Hector’s Maligned Corpse") which was seized by English pirates in 1807 on its voyage to Denmark. It was during the Napoleonic Wars when England and Denmark were enemies. This painting is now in the Danish Ambassador’s residence in Rome.  A companion piece painted between 1807 and 1811, "Pyrrhus og Andromache ved Hectors Grav" ("Pyrrhus and Andromache at Hector’s Grave"), was contributed to the Danish Royal Painting Collection, now the Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst), by Baron Schubart, General Consul in Livorno.
  These paintings helped establish himself as an idealistic and romantic painter, in contrast to rival neoclassicist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg’s realistic approach to the visual arts. The two artists represented, for many years, opposing viewpoints and cultural ideals in the Danish art scene.
caption: The three Norns of Norse mythology.
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