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Wilhelm Bendz - Outside the Odense poorhouse. - Google Art Project
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The poorhouse of Odense, situated in a renaissance former merchant house in Odense. The poorhouse was located here from 1804 until 1847 when it moved to new buildings. On the first floor there was a classroom for poor pupils, and Hans Christian Andersen was among them. The house was situated in Overgade 19 and part of it has survived.
Today he is mainly remembered for his many technically accomplished portraits, though his ambition most of all ran towards a refined fusion of portrait, genre scene and allegorical history painting. His technical virtuosity is particularly visible in his depictions of the play of light cast from an obscured source and the resulting shadows. His main works include several portraits of his fellow artists such as Ditlev Blunck and Christen Christensen (both in the Danish National Gallery, a scene from the Academy's anatomy class, as well as the group portraits "A Tobacco Party" (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) and "Artist in the Evening at Finck's Coffee House in Munich" (Thorvaldsens Museum).
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