Adam Oehlenschläger at Lund Cathedral 1829, Constantin Hansen, 1866

Adam oehlenschläger is publicly crowned with laurel by the swedish poet esaias tegner in front of the high altar in lund cathedral , as the "scandinavian king of song. ". The event cements his position as the leading proponant of romanticism in the region and in the same time heralds the emergence the scandinavismmovement. Object Type: painting. Date: 1866.