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Vilhelm Carl (Peter Vilhelm) Kyhn

Vilhelm Carl (Peter Vilhelm) Kyhn (1819 - 1903) was active/lived in Denmark.  Vilhelm Kyhn is known for Romantic landscape painting, teaching, etching.

Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age of the early 19th century and before the Modern Breakthrough of Naturalism* in the second half of that century. Even though he outlived many of his artistic peers by several decades, he remained a traditionalist and expressed strong criticism of many of the new trends in the painting of his day.

Kyhn also played a role as an educator, establishing several alternative art schools, including a painting school for women.

Kyhn was born in Copenhagen to Carl Gottlieb Kyhn and his wife Sara Marie. His father was against his becoming an artist, and he was first put to train in a business office; then as a compromise he was allowed to train with copperplate engraver*, Georg Hoffmann. Here he learned to make vignettes, a skill, which became useful to him later when he learned to make etchings.

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