Born 1843 in Grenå, Danish landscape painter Christian Zacho is remembered for his idyllic scenes of Danish beech woods. He began to exhibit at Charlottenborg as early as 1865 with
En Septemberdag (A September Day) painted in Jutland like most of his earlier works. Later landscapes were of Zealand, Møn and Bornholm. Some of his most successful works are those of woods in the springtime where streams run under tree tops bathed in sunlight. Two of his most appreciated works are his painting of
Vinterbillede fra Bretagne, Den første Sne (The First Snow, 1881) and
Et stille Vand i Dyrehaven (Quiet Waters in the Dyrhave, 1884). His works can only be described as talented.
Zacho continued to follow the style of the older generation of French landscape painters, especially Théodore Rousseau. Taken as a whole, he work can be said to fall in the Danish landscape tradition. His paintings of Bornholm and Zealand are delicately conceived but are a little conservative. In later life, he also painted portraits. He is however remembered above all for his more traditional, idyllic works which often depicted scenes of Danish beech woods.
Zacho was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1884. He died in 1913, in Hellerup, aged 79. Here is a collection of landscape paintings by Christian Zacho from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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| Little Girls Walking in a Field with Red Poppies in Bloom |
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| A Meadow at Summertime |
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| A Quiet Pool |
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| A Stream in Afternoon Light |
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| A Stream in the Woods |
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| A Sunlit Wood |
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| A Wooded Glade |
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| A Wooded Landscape by a Riverside |
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| A Wooded River Landscape with Figures in a Boat |
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| At Ordrup Bog |
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| By the Shore |
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| Coastal View from Menton, France |
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| Cows Grazing in a Clearing in the Forest |
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| Deer in the Forest |
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| Early Snow |
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| Forest Interior |
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| Forest Scene with a Stream |
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| From Lynae Ski Center |
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| From Taarup in Jutland |
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| Landscape with Trees |
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| Monte Carlo |
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| River Landscape |
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| Riverbank |
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| Spring Day in Saeby Forest, Denmark |
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| Still Water in Dyrehaven |
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| Summer Day at Mølleåen Stream |
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| Summer Landscape with Calm River |
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| The Beach at Bramsnæsvig, Zealand |
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| View from Gorgio near Mentone |
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| View from the Deer Garden in Denmark |
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| Woodland Scene with Stream |
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| Woodland Scene with Stream |
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