100 Notable alumni of
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts is 414th in the world, 144th in Europe, and 2nd in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lili Elbe
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- painter
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Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, and among one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.
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Gerda Wegener
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- painterdesignerillustrator
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Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener was a Danish illustrator and painter. Wegener is known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of her time concerning gender and love. These works were classified as lesbian erotica at times and many were inspired by her partner, transgender painter Lili Elbe. Wegener employed these works in the styles of Art Nouveau and later Art Deco.
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Caspar David Friedrich
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- sculptorarchitectural draftspersonprintmakerdrawerlandscape painter
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Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
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Bjarke Ingels
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
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Ólafur Elíasson
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- visual artist
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Olafur Eliasson is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience.
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Arne Jacobsen
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- designerfurniture designerarchitect
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Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple well-designed chairs.
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
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- sculptor
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Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish and Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic family, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the age of eleven. Working part-time with his father, who was a wood carver, Thorvaldsen won many honors and medals at the academy. He was awarded a stipend to travel to Rome and continue his education.
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
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- painter
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Vilhelm Hammershøi, often anglicised as Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 1864 – 13 February 1916), was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.
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Peder Severin Krøyer
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- sculptorpainter
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Peder Severin Krøyer, also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.
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Verner Panton
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1947-1951
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- university teacherinterior designerarchitectfurniture designertextile artist
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Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century. As of 2004, Panton's best-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others).
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Philipp Otto Runge
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- writerpainterprintmakerpoetdrawer
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Philipp Otto Runge was a German artist, draftsman, painter, and color theorist. Runge and Caspar David Friedrich are often regarded as the leading painters of the German Romantic movement. He is frequently compared with William Blake by art historians, although Runge's short ten-year career is not easy to equate to Blake's career. By all accounts he had a brilliant mind and was well versed in the literature and philosophy of his time. He was a prolific letter writer and maintained correspondences and friendships with contemporaries such as Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Henrik Steffens, and Ludwig Tieck. His paintings are often laden symbolism and allegories. For eight years he planned and refined his seminal project, Tageszeiten (Times of Day), four monumental paintings 50 square meters each, which in turn were only part of a larger collaborative Gesamtkunstwerk that was to include poetry, music, and architecture, but remained unrealized at the time of his death. With it he aspired to abandon the traditional iconography of Christianity in European art and find a new expression for spiritual values through symbolism in landscapes. One historian stated "In Runge's painting we are clearly dealing with the attempt to present contemporary philosophy in art." He wrote an influential volume on color theory in 1808, Sphere of Colors, that was published the same year he died.
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Jan Gehl
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- architecturban planner
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Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist. He is a founding partner of Gehl Architects.
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Carl Bloch
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- painter
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Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish artist.
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Johan Christian Dahl
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- professorpainter
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Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, often known as J. C. Dahl or I. C. Dahl, was a Danish-Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. He is often described as "the father of Norwegian landscape painting" and is regarded as the first Norwegian painter to reach a level of artistic accomplishment comparable to that attained by the greatest European artists of his day. He was also the first to acquire genuine fame and cultural renown abroad. As one critic has put it, "J.C. Dahl occupies a central position in Norwegian artistic life of the first half of the 19th century.
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
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- painteruniversity teachervisual artist
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now in Aabenraa Municipality, in the southern part of Jutland in Denmark). He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting, and is referred to as the "Father of Danish painting".
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Michael Peter Ancher
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- painter
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Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.
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Peder Mørk Mønsted
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- landscape painter
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Peder Mørk Mønsted was a Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings in a realistic style. His favorite motifs include snowy winter landscapes, still water and forests.
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Holger Drachmann
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- poet
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Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement.
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Adolph Tidemand
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1832-1837
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- genre painterpainterhistory painter
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Adolph Tidemand was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne (The Haugeans; 1852) and Brudeferd i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger; 1848), painted in collaboration with Hans Gude.
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Laurits Andersen Ring
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- ceramicistpainter
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Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, his painting Summer Day by Roskilde Fjord was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.
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Finn Juhl
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- designerarchitectuniversity teacherfurniture designer
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Finn Juhl was a Danish architect, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of Danish design in the 1940s and he was the designer who introduced Danish modern to America.
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Christen Købke
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- painter
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Christen Schiellerup Købke was a Danish painter, and one of the best-known artists from the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
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Henning Larsen
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- architect
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Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.
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Edvard Eriksen
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1894-1899
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- sculptorartist
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Edvard Eriksen was a Danish–Icelandic sculptor.
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Laurits Tuxen
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- paintersculptorhistory painter
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Laurits Regner Tuxen CVO was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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Bjørn Wiinblad
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- painterceramicistdesigner
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Bjørn Wiinblad, was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. Wiinblad was named Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995.
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Paul Gustav Fischer
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1876-1878
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- poster artistdrawerpainterphotographerillustrator
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Paul Gustav Fischer was a Danish painter.
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Nicolai Abildgaard
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- university teachersculptordrawerdesignerfurniture designer
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Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg.
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Erik Henningsen
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1873-1877
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- painter
- Biography
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Erik Ludvig Henningsen was a Danish painter and illustrator. He is best known for his Social Realist paintings of poor and exposed groups in the 1880s and 1890s. He was the younger brother of Frants Henningsen who was also a painter.
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Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
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- architectpainterceramicistgraphic artistphotographer
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Jens Ferdinand Willumsen was a Danish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and photographer. He became associated with the movements of Symbolism and Expressionism.
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Martinus Rørbye
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- painter
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Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century.
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Wilhelm Marstrand
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- university teacherpainter
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Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand, painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.
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Johan Lundbye
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- paintergraphic artist
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Johan Thomas Lundbye was a Danish painter and graphic artist, known for his animal and landscape paintings. He was inspired by Niels Laurits Høyen's call to develop nationalistic art through depictions of Denmark's characteristic landscapes; the historical buildings and monuments, and the country's simple, rural people. He became one of his generation's national romantic painters, along with P. C. Skovgaard and Lorenz Frølich, to regularly depict the landscape of Zealand.
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Constantin Hansen
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- painter
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Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Laurits Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology. He painted also many altarpieces and portraits, including the monumental oil painting The Danish Constituent Assembly (Den grundlovgivende Rigsforsamling) between 1861 and 1865.
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Christian Frederik Hansen
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1766
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Christian Frederik Hansen, known as C. F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years. He was known as "Denmark’s Palladio" on account of the architectural style he promoted. His buildings are known for their simplicity, strength and scale.
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Kristian Zahrtmann
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- painter
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Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, was a Danish painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and Theodor Esbern Philipsen, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, in favor of naturalism and realism.
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Bror Hjorth
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- painteruniversity teachersculptor
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Bror Hjorth was a Swedish artist. Hjorth was one of Sweden’s best-known sculptors and painters, and was professor of art at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1949 to 1959. On completion of his studies, he lived in Uppsala, where he built his studio home in Kåbo, now the Bror Hjorths Hus museum. He was awarded the Sergel Prize in 1955.
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Georg Friedrich Kersting
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- painter
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Georg Friedrich Kersting was a German painter, best known for his Biedermeier-style interior paintings and his association with fellow artist Caspar David Friedrich.
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Viggo Johansen
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- painter
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Viggo Johansen was a Danish painter and active member of the group of Skagen Painters who met every summer in the north of Jutland. He was one of Denmark's most prominent painters in the 1890s.
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Einar Jónsson
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- sculptor
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Einar Jónsson was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland.
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Jens Juel
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- painter
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Jens Juel was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle. He is regarded as the leading Danish portrait painter of the 18th century.
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Dea Trier Mørch
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1958-1964
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- writergraphic artist
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Dea Trier Mørch was a Danish artist and writer. She gained fame in 1976 with Vinterbørn, translated into English as Winter's Child.
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Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval
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- painterpoet
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Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval was an Icelandic painter. He is considered one of the most important artists of Iceland. His son is interior designer Sveinn Kjarval.
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Carl Holsøe
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- painter
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Carl Vilhelm Holsøe was a Danish artist who primarily painted interiors.
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Carl Rasmussen
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- painter
- Biography
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Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen was a Danish painter best known for his marine art and scenes of Greenland.
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Eilif Peterssen
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- painter
- Biography
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Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg. He also became known for his landscape paintings, and became part of the artist circle known as the Skagen Painters. He also became known for his design in 1905 of Norway's national coat of arms with the Norwegian lion, which was used by the government and the royal house. The design is still used in the royal coat of arms and the royal flag.
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Wilhelm Bendz
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- painter
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Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz was a Danish painter mainly known for genre works and portraits which often portray his artist colleagues and their daily lives. He was one of the most talented artists in the successful generation of painters who studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg but died early and has therefore left a relatively small oeuvre.
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P. C. Skovgaard
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1831-1845
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- university teacherpainter
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Peter Christian Thamsen Skovgaard was a Danish national romantic landscape painter. He is one of the main figures associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He is especially known for his large scale portrayals of the Danish landscape.
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Christian Albrecht Jensen
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- painterportrait painter
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Christian Albrecht Jensen was a Danish portrait painter who was active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century. Painting more than 400 portraits over the course of his career, he depicted most of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age, including the writer Hans Christian Andersen, the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted and the theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig.
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Otto Bache
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- painter
- Biography
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Otto Bache was a Danish Realist painter. Many of his works depict key events in Danish history.
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen
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- university teacherdesignerwriterarchitectart historian
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947.
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Ib Spang Olsen
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- graphic artistchildren's writercartoonistwriter
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Ib Spang Olsen was a Danish writer and illustrator best known to generations of Danes for cartoons and illustrations, many of which appeared in children's publications. Those include a series of nursery rhyme books written by Halfdan Rasmussen, including "Halfdans ABC". He also wrote his own children's books, such as the whimsical tale of the seasons, The Marsh Crone's Brew. Olsen drew for newspapers, magazines, books, posters, television, and comics. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator Olsen received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1972.
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Asmus Jacob Carstens
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- graphic designerpainterdrawercooper
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Asmus Jacob Carstens was a Danish-German painter, one of the most committed artists of German Neoclassicism. His career was erratic, partly because of his difficult personality, and the majority of his large projects were left incomplete, or subsequently destroyed. Much of what survives is in the form of drawings, many using "a schematic, pale colouring as a timid and humble accessory to the dominating figure-drawing", that were planned for large fresco commissions that never materialized.
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Thorvald Bindesbøll
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- designersculptorarchitect
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Thorvald Bindesbøll was a Danish National romantic architect, sculptor and ornamental artist. He designed the Dragon Fountain, Copenhagen (Dragespringvandet) and is perhaps best known as the creator of the Carlsberg beer label, which has remained unchanged since it was introduced.
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Christian Hansen
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Hans Christian Hansen was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis. Later in his career he returned to Denmark, where he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and designed buildings such as the Copenhagen Municipal Hospital and the Østervold Observatory. He was the brother of Theophilus Hansen who was also an internationally successful architect, active in Athens and Vienna. He is considered to be a pioneer in the study and application of polychrome architecture.
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Herman Wilhelm Bissen
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- sculptor
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Herman Wilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor. Bissen created a number of public works, working in plaster, marble and bronze.
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Kay Fisker
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- designeruniversity teacherarchitect
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Kay Otto Fisker was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is mostly known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent of Danish Functionalism.
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Louis Moe
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- painterwriterillustrator
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Louis Moe was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and writer who settled in Denmark.
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Christian Morgenstern
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- painteretchergraphic artist
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Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern was a German landscape painter. Morgenstern is regarded as one of the pioneers in Germany of early Realism in painting. He gained this reputation in Hamburg 1826-1829 together with his contemporary Adolph Friedrich Vollmer while both were still studying; from 1830 onwards, Morgenstern, together with Friedrich Wasmann, Johan Christian Dahl and Adolph Menzel, introduced Munich to Realist painting.
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Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint
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- painterdesignerarchitect
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Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time. Its Expressionist style relies heavily on Scandinavian brick Gothic traditions.
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Vilhelm Pedersen
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1844-1846
- Occupations
- painternaval officerillustrator
- Biography
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Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen was a Danish painter and illustrator who is known for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. He was the first artist to illustrate Andersen's works. His drawings were converted into wood prints and used in the Danish and German editions.
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Hack Kampmann
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- architect
- Biography
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Hack Kampmann was a Danish architect, Royal Inspector of Listed State Buildings in Jutland and professor at the architecture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus, built between 1899 and 1902, is among his best known works.
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Jens Adolf Jerichau
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Rome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its director from 1857 to 1863.
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Jørgen Sonne
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- paintergraphic artistdrawer
- Biography
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Jørgen Valentin Sonne was a Danish genre painter; known primarily for his battle scenes.
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Christian August Lorentzen
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- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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Christian August Lorentzen was a Danish painter.
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Ditlev Blunck
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- painter
- Biography
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Ditlev Conrad Blunck was a Danish-German painter associated with the Danish Golden Age during the first half of the 19th century.
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Kristian von Bengtson
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Kristian von Bengtson is a Danish architect, specializing in crewed spaceflight, a resident of Copenhagen and married to animation director Karla von Bengtson. He is most notable for his involvement in founding Copenhagen Suborbitals and European launcher company Orbex.
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Harald Slott-Møller
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- ceramicistpainter
- Biography
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Harald Slott-Møller was a Danish painter and ceramist. Together with his wife, the painter Agnes Slott-Møller, he was a founding member of Den Frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition).
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Christian Skredsvig
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- painterwriter
- Biography
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Christian Skredsvig was a Norwegian painter and writer. He employed an artistic style reflecting naturalism. He is especially well known for his picturesque and lyrical depictions of the landscape.
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Christen Dalsgaard
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- painter
- Biography
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Christen Dalsgaard was a Danish painter, a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
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Carl Locher
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- etcherpainter
- Biography
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Carl Locher was a Danish realist painter who from an early age became a member of the Skagen group of painters.
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Ruth Smith
- Years
- 1913-1958 (aged 45)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ruth Smith Nielsen was a Faroese artist. Smith lived for some years in Denmark, where she was educated as a painter: first, at the Bizzie Højer Art School, and, later, at the Art Academy of Copenhagen.
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Axel Salto
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- writerpainterprintmakerceramicisttextile artist
- Biography
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Axel Johannes Salto was a Danish ceramic artist of international fame. His works also include painting, graphic design and illustrations for books, jewelry and textiles. As author and founder of the art magazine Klingen (1917–1919), Salto was also an important contributor to the art debate in Denmark.
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Anton Melbye
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- painterphotographer
- Biography
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Daniel Herman Anton Melbye was a Danish painter and photographer who specialized in maritime scenes. He was the brother of painters Vilhelm and Fritz Melbye.
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Fritz Syberg
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the or Funen Painters (Fynboerne) living and working on the island of Funen.
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Ásgrímur Jónsson
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- painter
- Biography
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Ásgrímur Jónsson was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.
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Vilhelm Kyhn
- Occupations
- landscape painter
- Biography
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Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outlived many of his artistic peers by several decades, he remained a traditionalist and expressed strong criticism of many of the new trends in the painting of his day.
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Joakim Skovgaard
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1871-1876
- Occupations
- graphic artistsculptorpainterceramicist
- Biography
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Joakim Frederik Skovgaard was a Danish painter. He is remembered above all for the frescos which decorate Viborg Cathedral.
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Kim Hiorthøy
- Occupations
- film directormusicianphotographerwriterillustrator
- Biography
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Kim Hiorthøy is a Norwegian electronic musician, graphic designer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.
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Karl Madsen
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1872-1876
- Occupations
- painterart historianbiographer
- Biography
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Carl Johan Wilhelm Madsen, commonly known as Karl Madsen, was a Danish painter and art historian with close connections to the Skagen Painters.
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Martin Nyrop
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- designerfurniture designerarchitect
- Biography
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Martin Nyrop was a Danish architect.
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Vilhelm Lundstrøm
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Vilhelm Lundstrøm was a Danish modernist painter. He was a central figure in early Danish experimental art and introduced French cubism to Denmark.
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Oscar Wergeland
- Enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
- Studied in 1869-1870
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Oscar Arnold Wergeland was a Norwegian painter. He is best known for his historical painting of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll (Riksforsamlingen på Eidsvoll 1814). Two of his paintings are held in the National Gallery of Norway.
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Knud Baade
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Knud Baade was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes. He was particularly known for his moonlight paintings which are characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow.
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Kai Nielsen
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Kai Nielsen was a Danish sculptor.
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Albert Küchler
- Occupations
- painter
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Albert Küchler, O.F.M., was a Danish painter associated with the Danish Golden Age. He mainly painted genre works and portraits. He was highly esteemed by his contemporaries but is little known today. Later in life, he converted to Catholicism and became a member of the Order of Friars Minor
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Vilhelm Dahlerup
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- designerfurniture designerarchitect
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Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many of the most known buildings and landmarks of his time and has more than any other single architect contributed to the way Copenhagen appears today.
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech
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- publisherpainter
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria.
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Julius Exner
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- painter
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Johan Julius Exner,, Danish genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter. Exner originally intended on becoming a history painter, but quickly found his niche, however, in genre painting, the most popular and lucrative painting style of his era. His genre paintings figured prominently in Denmark's National Romantic period, an artistic period directly after the Golden Age of Danish Painting, when artistic focus was turned inwards to uniquely Danish themes.
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Frederik Vermehren
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- university teacherpainter
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Johan Frederik Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren (12 May 1823 – 10 January 1910), a genre and portrait painter in the realist style.
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Svend Hammershøi
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- porcelain painterpainter
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Svend Hammershøi was a Danish painter and ceramist. He is remembered principally for the classical pottery designs he contributed to the Royal Copenhagen (Kongelige Porcelainsfabrik) and to Kähler's Ceramics Factory (Kählers Keramiske Værksted) in Næstved.
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Christian Heinrich Grosch
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- architect
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Christian Heinrich Grosch was a Norwegian architect. He was a dominant figure in Norwegian architecture in the first half of the 1800s.
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Dankvart Dreyer
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- painter
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Dankvart Dreyer was a Danish landscape painter of the Copenhagen School of painters who was educated under the guidance of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Around 1840, he was part of the emerging National Romantic landscape painting scene in Denmark but as a result of his over-dramatic and excessively natural style, he did not fit the aesthetics and the ideology of the period. After being widely criticized, he turned his back on the artistic establishment and passed into near oblivion. In 1852, when only 36 years old, he died from typhus.
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Danh Vō
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- sculptorinstallation artist
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Danh Võ is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.
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Frants Henningsen
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- painter
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Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen was a Danish painter, illustrator and professor. His paintings depict unfortunate occurrences in the lives of middle-class people living in Copenhagen during difficult times. His connections with Denmark's more traditional, realist school encouraged criticism from many of his more reactionary contemporaries, especially Karl Madsen who objected to his appointment as a professor at the Academy in 1887. Erik Henningsen, also an artist, was his younger brother.
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Antonio Jacobsen
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- painter
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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".
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Johannes Flintoe
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- painter
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Johannes Flintoe was a Danish-born painter of Norwegian ancestry. He is known for his landscapes, costume studies and historical scenes. His works play a significant role in the transition to romantic nationalism.
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Jørgen Roed
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- painteruniversity teachersculptor
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Jørgen Roed,, Danish portrait and genre painter associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting, was born in Ringsted to Peder Jørgensen Roed and wife, Ellen Hansdatter.
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Johan Ludwig Lund
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- painter
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Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund was a Danish painter, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein, to master painter Hans Giewert Lund and his wife Maria Magdalena Christina Bremer. An adherent of romanticism, he is known for his history paintings.
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Carl Frederik Sørensen
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- painter
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Carl Frederik Sørensen was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.
