Aron fra Kangeq

Shop 2 artworks by Aron fra Kangeq (Danish, 1822–1869) — every piece is public domain and can be printed as canvas, rolled canvas, framed canvas or a framed print.

Aron of Kangeq was a Greenlandic Inuk hunter, painter, and oral historian. His woodcuts and watercolors are noted for their depiction of Inuit culture and history, and the often violent encounters between Inuit and Danish settlers. His storytelling is known to children's literature in Greenland.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

At a glance

Most of Aron fra Kangeq's work on the site falls under Prints (20), Drawings (3), Illustration (3).

By movement, it's catalogued as Baroque (26).

Culture: Danish (26).

By orientation: 22 landscape, 2 portrait, 2 square.

Dated work in this group ranges from 1822 to 1859.

Other Danish artists of the period

Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:

• Wilhelm Marstrand — 666 artworks
• Johan Thomas Lundbye — 612 artworks
• P. C. Skovgaard — 490 artworks
• Martinus Rørbye — 472 artworks
• Martinus Rørbye — 472 artworks
• Lorenz Frølich — 425 artworks
• Dankvart Dreyer — 267 artworks
• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg — 230 artworks

Prints of these artworks

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Sizes and framing

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