Background
Møller was a landscape painter and the son of a potter. He was born in Faaborg and grew up with a relative in Eckernförde in Schleswig.
Møller was a landscape painter and the son of a potter. He was born in Faaborg and grew up with a relative in Eckernförde in Schleswig.
Christian VIII of Denmark supported Møller as a patron. At the same time Møller decided to learn how to restore paintings In 1810 he received a travel grant partly by the Prince"s support. Møller first traveled to Brussels and from there to Paris.
In Paris he studied partly its technical subject and partly made landscape studies of nature by copying examples of works by Claude Lorrain.
Here Møller again met Eckersberg and lived with him in 1813 when the latter traveled to Rome. As early as 1814 Møller had been appointed curator at the royal collection of paintings and was for some years a drawing teacher for midshipmen.
From 1841 he also supervised the paintings on the royal castles. From 1834 he was also curator (inspector) of Count Carl Moltke"s painting collection.
At the Christiansborg Palace Møller painted his four major landscapes from Switzerland and Tyrol.
The Royal Painting Collection owns eight of his pictures.