page_title: Frederik Vermehren
section_title: Training at the Academy
hierarchical_section_title: Frederik Vermehren / Training at the Academy
context_page_description: Johan Frederik Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren, a genre and portrait painter in the realist style. His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting. Vermehren, along with his fellow artists Christen Dalsgaard and Julius Exner, were prominent in the Danish genre of painting; they depicted ordinary people of the country, especially farmers and other country folk. His idealised depictions helped define and encourage Denmark's period of national romanticism.
context_section_description: In 1844, Vermehren went to Copenhagen, where he became a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) and trained under Jørgen Roed. He exhibited his first painting, En Skomager i sit Køkken (A Shoemaker in his Kitchen) at Charlottenborg in 1847. This painting was purchased by King Christian VIII, and was praised by the art critic and national art form advocate Niels Lauritz Høyen (1798–1870).  In 1848, Vermehren volunteered in the First war of Schleswig, but his health did not allow him to continue. On his return home, he painted Reservesoldatens Afsked fra sin Familie (exhibited in 1850) and now hangs in the collection of the Danish National Gallery.
  In the years 1851–1854, Vermehren exhibited only a single painting while he completed several of his more important works. One particular work, Hvedebrødsmanden (painted in 1851), now hangs in the Hirschsprung Collection. En jysk Faarehyrde paa Heden 
  (painted in 1853), was exhibited in 1855 in both Copenhagen and Paris.
caption: Frederik Vermehren, Fårehyrde på heden (Shepherd on the Heath), 1855, Statens Museum for Kunst
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