Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub (1783-1816)

• Was a Danish painter, mainly of mythological subjects.
• Christian was born in Copenhagen in 1783.
• He was a son of 2nd lieutenant, in the Royal Danish Navy, Otto Frederik Stub and Louise Elisabeth née Kratzenstein.
• In 1795, the boy was sent to Salzmanns school in Schnepfenthal near Gotha, where he stayed for 4 years.
• When he had returned to Copenhagen, he passed the matriculation exam in 1802 with top marks.
• He apprenticed himself to Nicolai Abildgaard to become a painter, but soon decided to educate himself.
• He engaged in 1808 to Mille Johanne Smith.
• To learn more about art, in 1809 he travelled to France and Italy.
• In 1811 he returned to Copenhagen and celebrated his wedding.
• He managed to complete the picture Ossian and Alphin's son before his early death.
• Kratzenstein Stub's health, never strong, was weakened by the early death of a daughter.
• In the summer of 1816, he went out to a sister at Kalundborg Ladegård to convalesce in the country air, but he died there.
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