Apollo Book Competition

For our last competition, we offered you the chance to win ‘The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50’ by Cassidy-Geiger, Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann (The Frick Collection, $275), to coincide with our just published July/August issue, which celebrates the 300^th anniversary of the Meissen manufactury’s foundation. The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great prewar Meissen collections to have survived intact. Uniquely, most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory, established by August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in 1710. The collection features a broad range of early work – much of it experimental, including table and chocolate services; figures; European porcelains and Asian ceramics.

We asked you: In what year did Johann Joachim Kandler become Modellmeister at the Meissen factory?

Answer: 1733

Congratulations to Robin Kaye Goodman, winner of this competition, drawn at random from the hundreds of correct answers we received.

We are pleased to announce that our new competition prize is ‘Christen Købke – Danish Master of Light’ by David Jackson (Yale, £25). This is the accompanying catalogue to the National Gallery exhibition reviewed in our June issue by John Russell Taylor, and now on at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (until 3 October) – the first monograph show of the artist outside of Denmark. Christen Købke (1819-1848) is considered one of the greatest painters of Denmark’s ‘Golden Age’ based on his ability to render even the simplest landscape meaningful with charm and delicacy whilst working outside of the constraints of academic traditions. As our reviewer wrote, “He seems to love the real simply because it is real: even when he is painting a church interior he cannot resist avoiding glorification”. Including 85 colour illustrations, this book brings together the most innovative aspects of his work, such as his fascination with light and atmosphere, within its cultural context, to create a comprehensive overview of “one of the great masters”.

For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:

What 18th-century feature was omitted from Købke’s Frederiksborg Castle. View near the Møntbro Bridge (1836) to remain true to period authenticity?

Email your answers to offers@apollomag.com using 'Købke' as the subject of your email. Only answers received before midday on 14th July will be entered into the competition draw.

Good luck!

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