Carl Christian Forup - Artist Info

About Carl Christian Forup

  • Biography

    Carl Christian Forup was born at Vejle, Denmark on 26 February 1883. He studied at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen under Ole Olsen from 1902 – 1906 and again from 1907 to 1911 at the Royal Danish Academy of the Arts. In 1908 Forup married Eugenie Augusta Isabella Schmidt, a model in many Forup paintings. In 1908, following his marriage, he moved to Charlottenberg where he lived almost all his life.

    Forup painted a broad spectrum of subjects, from portraits and genre scenes to landscapes, book illustrations and murals. He exhibited regularly in Denmark at the Danish Royal Academy and also in Munich in 1906 and Paris in 1910, in the recently opened Henri Matisse School of Painting. Examples of Forup’s wo...

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