On his first go to to Rome, 1833 to 1834, H. C. Andersen met the Danish artist Albert Küchler who made the primary recognized portrait drawing of the Danish fairytale king. In 2025, the oldest recognized portrait drawing of H. C. Andersen is scheduled to be exhibited in Odense, Denmark.
It took a great deal of nail-biting, endurance and monetary assist earlier than Museum Odense succeeded in securing the very particular and helpful object for H.C. Andersen’s Home – specifically the oldest nown portrait drawing of H.C. Andersen, which has been preserved.
On 10 June 2024, the portrait was on supply on the Bruun-Rasmussen artwork auctions, however the museum misplaced the bidding and needed to see the drawing go to an nameless, international purchaser.
When the drawing is now included in H.C. The Andersen collections at Museum Odense it’s because of the Cultural Values Committee, which administers the Act on Safeguarding Cultural Values in Denmark, and which since 1987 has had the duty of making certain that uncommon artworks and cultural objects can’t be taken in a foreign country with out permission.
The international purchaser of the portrait utilized to the Cultural Values Committee for permission to take the drawing out of Denmark, however the committee imposed an export ban when the Cultural Values Committee assessed that Albert Küchler’s portrait drawing of H.C. Andersen ought to stay in Denmark.
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In opposition to this background, the client selected to just accept a purchase order supply, which Museum Odense with the assist of the New Carlsberg Basis and the contribution of H.C. Andersen’s Basis had the chance to submit.
On this means, the museum succeeded within the second spherical in shopping for the youth portrait of H.C. Andersen and thus make sure that a bit of Danish cultural heritage stays inside the nation’s borders and never least in public possession.
When H.C. Andersen arrived within the Italian capital in October 1833, the peer painter was a kind of who welcomed him, and through January 1834 Albert Küchler portrayed the 28-year-old H.C. Andersen.
The story of the creation of the drawing is that Albert Küchler executed a portrait to start with of January 1834, which immediately is displayed within the Nationwide Historical past Museum at Frederiksborg Fort. On 31 January 1834, he executed a second portrait with silver pen and pencil – or exactly the drawing that Museum Odense has acquired for the gathering in H.C. Andersen’s Home.
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The drawing initially belonged to Albert Küchler himself and was later handed over to the Scandinavian Affiliation in Rome, from the place it, together with the affiliation’s different friendship portraits, was separated from the collections in 2024 and provided on the market.
Albert Küchler (1803-1886) was a Danish painter related to the Danish Golden Age. He primarily painted style works and portraits. He was extremely esteemed by his contemporaries however is little recognized immediately.
The Oldest Portrait Drawing of H. C. Andersen to be Exhibited in Odense, Denmark, reported by Tor Kjolberg
