Background
He was born in Holsten in 1798.
He was born in Holsten in 1798.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1814 he began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen as a student of Central America Lorentzen (1746–1828). Concurrently he received teaching from C.W. Eckersberg together with Wilhelm Bendz (1804–1832), Ernst Meyer and Albert Küchler. In 1818 Blunck moved to Munich, presumably dissatisfied with the teaching he received, and enrolled in the Academy as a student.
He stayed there until 1820, then returned to Copenhagen.
Back in Denmark, Blunck became a student of the new professor, historical painter J.L. Lund (1777–1867), who was to become a major influence on his painting. Thus, it was also mostly history painting, that marked Blunck"s early work.
Later, through genre painting, it became representative of the kind of everyday realism, that was to appear in Danish art in the mid-1820s. The influence from J.L. Lund grew particularly clear during his stay in Germany beginning in 1828.
He was, however, more influenced by the works of Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) in changing his artistic direction.
Blunck"s stay abroad also brought him to Rome. Here, he joined the group around Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) and produced several of his major paintings including Danish artists in the inn Louisiana Gensola.