Background
Conrad Christian Bøhndel was the son of Christian August Bøhndel and Frederikke Louise, née Staack.
Conrad Christian Bøhndel was the son of Christian August Bøhndel and Frederikke Louise, née Staack.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
He went to Copenhagen as a young man to be trainned as an artist at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. After his studies at the Art Academy he visited the German painter Philipp Otto Runge in Dresden in 1802. After his return to Copenhagen he showed a portion of his trip abroad in an art exhibition in 1811.
Although his work at the academy lacked accuracy in drawing and harmony in color, his pictures were so very good that he was conferred an agre in 1812.
A year later he painted the architect Christian Frederik Hansen and Count Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann"s portraits. He appears to have lived in the District of Schleswig where he lithographed, among other things, the panel compositions of Hans Brüggemann"s altarpiece between 1824-1832.
Considered a respectable piece of work at the time, his work comprised 34 plates with a translated text in German by Niels Laurits Høyen. But he was considered a portrait painter in his time.
In 1843 he exhibited Geskel Saloman"s portrait as one of his first works, but then he was no longer wishing to be in Copenhagen at the time.
He died in Schleswig on 18 December 1847.