Ben af mandlig model 1860 - 1864
theodorphilipsen1
statensmuseumforkunst
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Theodor Philipsen's charcoal and wash drawing "Ben af mandlig model" (1860-1864), housed in the Statens Museum for Kunst, is a study of a male nude. It captures the lower body and feet of the model, emphasizing the form and structure of the musculature. Philipsen, a Danish artist known for his realist style, used the study as a practice for capturing anatomical details and light, contributing to his later figurative paintings. This piece showcases the artist's skillful rendering of the human form, characteristic of his academic training.
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The Danish painter Theodor Phillipsen was a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1862-1869. Part of his education was drawing nude male models. There are two drawings from c. 1867 by Phillipsen in the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark. These drawings have, however, subsequently been cropped to fit a platter and punchbowl when the artist used the other side of the paper for two ceramic designs in the 1890s. The two sketches are relatively large. This could be because Phillipsen wanted to include as much of the academy drawings on the back as possible. Today the ceramic sketches are seen as the front of the drawings, but because Phillipsen made them on paper he had used before, his academy drawings have also found their way into our collection. This could have been a conscious recycling strategy by the artist, or else the academy drawings were the only paper he had at hand when making the ceramic sketches.
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