Who is Herman Siegumfeldt?

Herman Carl Siegumfeldt (18 September 1833 – 27 June 1912) was a Danish genre and landscape painter.

Siegumfeldt was born at Haregabsgaarden in the parish of Esbønderup in North Zealand, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Anton Siegumfeldt and Maren Cathrine Schou.

At the age of eleven, he was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Later, he studied bearing in mind Niels Simonsen (1807–1885) while taking practical courses in handicrafts. He won a little silver medal at the age of seventeen, but his financial concern was precarious, so he had to devote himself to crafts rather than continue his art studies.

By the winter of 1854-55, he had saved ample to give everything his times to painting and was competent to make a sale to the Kunstforeningen. The afterward year, they acquired several more works. His simple, naturally composed works soon attracted a large audience. From 1857 to 1860, he concentrated on painting landscapes.

Before he had quite achieved financial security, he disrespected his right arm during a vacation to Sweden. It took several years to adequately recover. Meanwhile, it required a good deal of effort to total a canvas and he considered the possibility of having to relinquish painting. In 1863, pleased following one of his works, the Royal Academy settled him a travel allowance to examination in Belgium, France and Italy.

While travelling, his right thumb became inflamed and had to be amputated. He returned house and, following a long mature of idleness, decided to step all along from art. The resulting depression led him to enter a mental hospital. He made a recovery after three years, and once once again took stirring painting. By 1880, he was a believer of the Royal Academy’s handing out committee and had produced some of his best-known portraits. In 1897, he created an altar painting of Paul upon the road to Damascus for St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus. He died during 1912 in Copenhagen.