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Conrad Christian August Bøhndel (Bøndel) (7 March 1779 in Hostrup Sogn, Slogs Herred – 18 December 1847 in Schleswig) was a Danish painter and lithographer. A friend of Philipp Otto Runge and Bertel Thorvaldsen, he lithographed the Hans Brüggemann's altarpiece between 1824-1832.
Biography
Conrad Christian Bøhndel was the son of Christian August Bøhndel and Frederikke Louise, née Staack. He went to Copenhagen as a young man to be trainned as an artist at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He belonged to the circle of friends of Caspar David Friedrich when he first arrived in Copenhagen in 1799. After his studies at the Art Academy he visited the German painter Philipp Otto Runge in Dresden in 1802.
In 1799 he won the Great Silver Medal and undertook an overseas trip with royal support, joining the Danish-German colony in Rome where he stayed from 1802 to 1810. He befriended Bertel Thorvaldsen, especially through his old classmate Johan Ludwig Lund. 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 was married to a widow of some Duhn, Anna Maria, née Kruck. He died in Schleswig on 18 December 1847.