Anton Eduard Kieldrup

Anton Eduard Kieldrup (16 February 1826, Haderslev – 22 May 1869, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter.

From 1845 to 1847, with support from his family, he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he decided to become a landscape painter.

[1] After a stay in Munich from 1858 to 1859, at his own expense, he exhibited landscapes which the Academy judged as promising and, finally, in 1863, was awarded a stipend for study travel.

These trips, notably a lengthy stay in Düsseldorf, were later judged to have had an unfavorable effect on his work, as he became too focused on the prevailing popular fashions.

Upon returning home, that influence slowly wore off and his works became a more natural reflection of the Danish landscape, especially the forests and coastlines.