This is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark:

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Axel Aabrink Axel Conrad Petersen Aabrink (April 17, 1887 – February 2, 1965) was a Danish painter. His parents were Jens Christian Aabrink and Anna Jensen. Biography Aabrink was educated at technical school and at the school of Kristian Zahrtmann. He was ...

(1887–1965) *

Jørgen Aabye Jørgen Emil Aabye, born Olsen, (9 June 1868 – 22 June 1959) was a Danish painter. His works were varied widely, ranging from religious art to portraits and landscapes. Above all, he is remembered for his portraits. Early life Born near Nørre ...

(1868–1959) *

Carl Frederik Aagaard Carl Frederik Peder Aagaard (29 January 1833 – 2 November 1895) was a Danish landscape painter and decorative artist. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and under P. C. Skovgaard. Many of his paintings focused on spots freq ...

(1833–1895) * Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1744–1809) *

Georg Achen Georg Nicolai Achen (23 July 1860 – 6 January 1912) was a Danish painter. One of the more accomplished Naturalism (arts), Naturalists of his generation, from the 1890s he specialized in portraits. Biography Born in Frederikssund and moved with ...

(1860–1912) *

Else Alfelt Else Alfelt (16 September 1910 – 9 August 1974) was a Danish artist who specialized in abstract paintings. She was one of two female members of the CoBrA movement. She was married to Carl-Henning Pedersen, another prominent CoBrA member. Earl ...

(1910–1974) * Peder Als (1725–1776) *

Peter Alsing Nielsen Poul Peter Knud Augustinus Alsing Nielsen (21 May 1907 – 11 April 1985) was a Danish painter. Born in Frederikssund, he studied painting and graphic art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1930. Initially interested in landscape painti ...

(1907–1985) *

Catherine Engelhart Amyot Catherine (Cathinca) Caroline Engelhart Amyot (1845–1926) was a Danish painter who specialized in portraits and genre works. She travelled widely, creating a number of works of historical interest. In 1869 she began exhibiting in Düsseldorf and ...

(1845–1926) * Anna Ancher (1859–1935) *

Michael Ancher Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the lakes, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Early life and education Michael ...

(1849–1927) *

Morten Andersen Morten Andersen (born 19 August 1960), nicknamed the "Great Dane", is a Danish former American football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 25 seasons, most notably with the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons. F ...

(born 1976)

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Carl Baagøe Carl Emil Baagøe (22 August 1829, Copenhagen – 16 April 1902, Snekkersten) was a Danish marine painter. Biography His father was a sailing master. He displayed artistic talent at an early age and was given drawing lessons. He also had access ...

(1829-1902) * Otto Bache (1839–1927) *

Carl Balsgaard Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard (24 December 1812, Copenhagen - 14 August 1893, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter; primarily of still-lifes. Biography His father was an accountant and auditor. He studied under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the Royal D ...

(1812–1893) *

Emil Bærentzen Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen, usually known as Emil Bærentzen (30 October 1799 – 14 February 1868) was a Danish portrait painter and lithographer, active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He founded Em. Bærentzen & Co. Biography Born ...

(1799–1868) * Mogens Ballin (1871–1914) *

Magdalene Bärens Magdalene Margrethe Bärens (née ''Schäffer'') (30 September 1737 – 6 June 1808) was a Danish artist. She was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark, and the first woman to be elected into the Royal Danish Academy of Fin ...

(1737–1808) *

Poul Anker Bech Poul Anker Bech (13 April 1942 – 7 October 2009) was a Danish painter. He started painting in the 1960s and studied at The Jutland Academy of Art in Aarhus, 1966–67. He quit his job in 1988 to become a full-time painter. Poul Anker Bech ...

(1942–2009) *

Wilhelm Bendz Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz (20 March 1804 – 14 November 1832) 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 ...

(1804–1832) *

Albert Bertelsen Albert Bertelsen (17 November 1921 – 10 December 2019) was a Danish autodidact painter and graphic artist. Biography Bertelsen was born in Vejle. Bertelsen is primarily known for his landscape paintings and graphic works in green colours. His wo ...

(1921–2019) * Ejler Bille (1910–2004) *

Jens Birkholm Jens Birkholm (21 November 1869 – 11 May 1915) was a Danish genre painter associated with the group known as the Funen Painters. Biography Birkholm was born in and died in Faaborg. His father was a Sailing Master.

(1869–1915) * Wilhelm Bissen (1836–1913) *

Carl Heinrich Bloch Carl Heinrich Bloch (23 May 1834 – 22 February 1890) was a Danish artist. Biography He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied there at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') under Wilhelm Marstran ...

(1834–1890) *

Lars Bo Lars Bo (29 May 1924 in Kolding – 21 October 1999 in Paris) was a Danish artist and writer. He is known for his graphic works with surrealistically inspired fantastic motifs. He was nicknamed "Wizard". Lars Bo worked with P. Rostrup Bøyesen a ...

(1924–1999) * Jørgen Boberg (1940–2009) *

Peter Brandes Peter Brandes (born 5 March 1944 in Assens, Denmark) is a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist and photographer. Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He ...

(born 1944) * Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857–1942) *

Victor Brockdorff Arthur Victor Schack von Brockdorff, generally known as Victor Brockdorff, (October 11, 1911 – February 25, 1992) was a Danish painter who joined the artists' colony known as the Odsherred Painters in Northwestern Zealand in the early 1930s. He ...

(1911–1992) *

Laura Brun-Pedersen Laura Oline Hedvig Brun-Pedersen (19 July 1883 – 7 March 1961) was a Danish painter. Born in Copenhagen, she studied art at the painting schools of Ernst Goldschmidt (1917–18) and Harald Giersing (1919-20). She painted deeply coloured landscap ...

(1883–1961) *

Johan Jacob Bruun Johan Jacob Bruun (30 November 1715 – 4 January 1789) was a Danish painter. Often working in gouaches, he is most known for his topographic prospects which herald the development of a Danish landscape painting. Biography He was born in Slag ...

(1715–1789) *

Eva Louise Buus Eva Louise Buus (born 1979) is a Danish artist. A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she has exhibited in Denmark, Germany and Greenland. Her landscapes are principally concerned with the effects of light and darkness on the appeara ...

(born 1979)

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Emil Carlsen Soren Emil Carlsen (October 19, 1853 – January 2, 1932, New York City, U.S.) was an American Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark. He became known for his still lifes. Later in his career, Carlsen expanded his r ...

(1853–1932) *

Andreas Riis Carstensen Andreas Christian Riis Carstensen (9 November 1844 – 5 May 1906) was a Danish painter who specialized in maritime scenes, notably of Greenland. Biography He was born in Sennels, near Thisted. His father, Jørgen (1805–1856) was the local p ...

(1844–1906) *

Ebba Carstensen Ebba Ninna Back Carstensen (23 August 1885 – 13 October 1967) was a Danish painter. Her painting developed from a rather Impressionist style towards Cubism. Biography Born in Västra Kärrstorp near Malmö in Sweden, she was the daughter of a fa ...

(1885–1967) *

Johannes Carstensen Johannes Carstensen (30 January 1924 — 26 December 2010) was a Danish painter. His stay in France in the 1950s encouraged him to adopt a Neo-impressionistic approach to his painting. In the 1960s, he moved to Odsherred where he became associated ...

(1924–2010) *

C.C.A. Christensen Carl Christian Anton Christensen (November 28, 1831 – July 3, 1912) was a Danish-American artist who is known for his paintings illustrating the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Of him it has been said t ...

(1831–1912) *

Godfred Christensen Polycarpus Godfred Berry Wildenradt Christensen (23 July 1845, Copenhagen - 15 November 1928, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography Christensen was born Copenhagen, the son of Mads Christensen and Anna Kirstine Wissing. Afte ...

(1845–1928) *

Poul Simon Christiansen Poul Simon Christiansen, frequently referred to as Poul S. Christiansen (20 October 1855, Rolfsted, Funen – 14 November 1933, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter who developed a Colourist style under Kristian Zahrtmann and as a result of his appre ...

(1855–1933) * Franciska Clausen (1899–1986) *

Gad Frederik Clement Gad Frederik Clement, generally known as G. F. Clement (9 July 1867 – 7 January 1933), was a Danish painter. After an early encounter with the French Symbolists, he took an interest in the Italian Renaissance period before turning to the more r ...

(1867–1933) *

Janus la Cour Janus Andreas Bartholin la Cour (5 September 1837 – 13 October 1909) was a Danish painter who is remembered for his landscapes painted in the classical style of the Eckersberg school. Biography Born near Ringkøbing, he spent much of his earl ...

(1837–1909)

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Carl Dahl Niels Carl Michaelius (Michael) Flindt Dahl, usually known as Carl Dahl, (24 March 1812 in Faaborg – 7 April 1865 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish marine painter during the Golden Age of Danish Painting. Biography In 1835, Dahl entered the Dan ...

(1812–1865) * Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907) *

Sven Dalsgaard Sven Dalsgaard Jensen (29 May 1914 – 22 January 1999) was a Danish painter, sculptor and writer. Biography Born in Vorup near Randers, Dalsgaard was self-taught as a painter. His earliest paintings are Naturalistic but around 1934 he was inspi ...

(1914–1999) *

Inger Lut Debois Inger Merete Lut Debois née Andersen (1931–2015) was a Danish painter. She is remembered for her works with interacting figures which became increasingly abstract as she matured. In 1992, Debois decorated the IC3 train "Thyra Danebod". From 1992 ...

(1931–2015), painter *

Heinrich Dohm Heinrich August Emil Dohm (27 September 1875, Copenhagen – 28 January 1940, Copenhagen) was a Denmark, Danish artist who painted portraits and genre works and for a period specialized in religious paintings.Anton Dorph Anton Laurids Johannes Dorph (15 February 1831, Horsens – 12 January 1914, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter who is remembered for his altarpieces and his paintings of fishermen. Biography Dorph entered the Danish Academy in 1845 where he studi ...

(1831–1914) * Bertha Dorph (1875–1960) *

Dankvart Dreyer Dankvart Dreyer (13 June 1816 – 4 November 1852) 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 Romanti ...

(1816–1852)

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* Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853) * Heinrich Eddelien (1802–1852) *

Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen (1 March 1827 – 24 April 1912) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography Rasmussen Eilersen was born at Østerby, Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, Denmark. His father, Rasmus Eilersen (1788-1869), was a farmer and th ...

(1827–1912) *

Ib Eisner Ib Eisner (19 May 1925 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 7 April 2003 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) was a Danish artist. His artistic career started in 1945 with entering the Copenhagen Academy of Arts, where he studied in the classes of the Professors Kr ...

(1925–2003) *

Harald Rudyard Engman Harald Rudyard Engman (1903-1968) was a Danish artist, painter. Above all, he is remembered for his fierce use of satire in criticizing and resisting the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. > Biography Little has been published abou ...

(1903–1968) *

Julius Exner Johan Julius Exner, (30 November 1825 – 15 November 1910), 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 Jørgensdat ...

(1825–1910)

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Paul Gustave Fisher Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter. Biography Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He belonged to the fourth generation of a Jewish family which originally came from Poland. He was the son of P ...

(1860–1934) *

Johanna Marie Fosie Johanna Marie Fosie (24 March 1726 – 23 August 1764) was a Danish painter, the first professional native female artist in Denmark. Biography Fosie was the daughter of Anna Dorothea Ilsøe and the painter Jacob Fosie, who was a teach ...

(1726–1764) * Wilhelm Freddie (1909–1995) *

Didrik Frisch Johan Didrik Frisch (4 May 1835 – 22 November 1867) was a Danish landscape and animal painter. Biography Didrik Frisch was born on a farm near Slagelse, Denmark. His father was a landowner. He began his education at the Sorø Academy; a priv ...

(1836–1867) *

Cladius Detlev Fritzsch Cladius (Claus) Detlev Fritzsch (10 June 1765 – 17 November 1841), normally referred to as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter. Biography Fritzsch was born on 10 June 1765 in Kiel. He traveled to Copenhagen and attended the Royal Danis ...

(1765–1841) *

Lorenz Frølich Lorenz Frølich (25 October 182025 October 1908) was a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and etcher. Early life and education Frølich was born into a wealthy bourgeouis family in Copenhagen. The son of Johan Jacob Frølich (1777-1858) ...

(1820–1908) *

Georg Mathias Fuchs Georg Mathias Fuchs (9 October 1719, in Regensburg – 5 April 1797, in Copenhagen) was a German-born Danish portrait and history painter. Biography His father was the custodian of the Trinitarian church in Regensburg. He spent six years appr ...

(1719–1797)

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Paul Gadegaard Paul Preben Gadegaard (17 November 1920 – 4 March 1992) was a Danish painter and sculptor. He developed an Abstract geometrical style in his painting but is best remembered for decorating factories in Herning, contributing significantly to the de ...

(1920–1996) * Johan Vilhelm Gertner (1818–1871) * Ib Geertsen (1919–2009) *

Albert Gottschalk Albert Gottschalk (3 July 1866 – 13 February 1906) was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen. Biography Albert Gottschalk was born in ...

(1866–1906) *

Vilhelm Groth Georg Vilhelm Arnold Groth (9 March 1842, Copenhagen - 14 September 1899, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography His father was a pharmacist and his mother came from a family of merchants. After taking a diploma at the Det von ...

(1842–1899)

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* Erik Hagens (born 1940) *

Hans Jørgen Hammer Hans Jørgen Hammer (29 December 1815 – 28 January 1882) was a genre, landscape, and portrait painter and printmaker of the Golden Age of Danish painting. In addition, he served for eleven years as a military officer. Biography Hans Jørgen Ha ...

(1815–1882) *

Svend Hammershøi Svend Hammershøi (10 August 1873 – 27 February 1948) was a Danish painter and ceramist.Sigurd Schultz: He is remembered principally for the classical pottery designs he contributed to the Royal Copenhagen (''Kongelige Porcelainsfabrik'') and to ...

(1873–1948) *

Vilhelm Hammershøi Vilhelm Hammershøi (), often anglicised as Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 186413 February 1916), was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.Souren Melikian,Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set ...

(1864–1916) *

Constantin Hansen Carl Christian Constantin Hansen (Constantin Hansen) (3 November 1804 – 29 March 1880) 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 hist ...

(1804–1880) * Hans Hansen (1769–1828) *

Heinrich Hansen (painter) Heinrich Hansen (23 November 1821, Haderslev – 10 July 1890, Frederiksberg) was a Danish architectural painter and State Councillor. His son, Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, was also an architectural painter. Biography His father was a cloth dyer who ...

(1821–1890) * Peter Hansen (1868–1928) *

Otto Haslund Carl Otto Bentzon Haslund (4 November 1842 – 30 August 1917) was a Danish painter. He is remembered in particular for his paintings of animals and children. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Haslund attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts f ...

(1842–1917) *

Arne Haugen Sørensen Arne Haugen Sørensen (born 27 April 1932) is a Danish painter and illustrator. Since the 1980s, he has become one of Denmark's most productive religious artists, decorating over 25 churches. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Haugen Sørensen had li ...

(born 1932) *

Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen (16 September 1912, Argentina – 14 February 1999, Ærøskøbing) was a Denmark, Danish painter who is remembered for his old Nordic landscapes, his church decorations and his woodcuts.Henry Heerup Henry Heerup (4 November 1907 – 30 May 1993) was a Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Heerup was an extremely versatile artist. His works of art included paintings, lithographs, stone sculptures, linoleum cuts and drawings as well as ob ...

(1907–1993) *

Ella Heide Ella Christine Heide, née Brodersen, (24. November 1871 – 1956) was a Danish painter who from 1908 painted in Skagen in the far north of Jutland. Biography Born in Flensburg (then Danish) in 1871, she married Rolf Wilhelm Heide who owned the Kr ...

(1871–1956) *

Einar Hein Einar Hein (19 May 1875 – 8 August 1931) was a Danish painter who is remembered for his paintings of the landscapes and people of Skagen in the north of Denmark.Hanne Hellesen Johanne (Hanne) Hellesen (1801–1844) was a Danish painter who was trained privately under Johan Laurentz Jensen as women had not yet been admitted to the Royal Danish Academy. She is recognized as one of the most successful female flower pain ...

(1801–1844) * Erik Henningsen (1855–1930) * Frants Henningsen (1850–1908) *

Marie Henriques Marie Henriques (26 June 1866 – 12 January 1944) was a Danish painter who created landscapes, figure paintings and portraits, initially in the Realist style but increasingly under the influence of Impressionism. She also painted watercolours of ...

(1866–1944) *

Sally Henriques Sally (Salomon) Ruben Henriques (14 November 1815 – 29 April 1886) was a Danish painter. He was born and died in Copenhagen and portrayed the city in his pictures. Biography Sally Henriques was born on 14 November 1815 into a Jewish famil ...

(1815–1886) *

Carsten Henrichsen Carsten Henrichsen (23 September 1824 - 30 April -1897) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography Henrichsen was born into a working-class family in Copenhagen in 1824. He at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1840 to 1845 and took draw ...

(1824–1897) *

Søren Hjorth Nielsen Søren Hjorth Nielsen (2 August 1901 – 7 July 1983) was a Danish painter and illustrator. He is remembered for his paintings of the allotments and outskirts of Copenhagen and later for his landscapes of the Bramsnæs Vig area in northwestern Zeal ...

(1901–1983) *

Niels Peter Holbech Niels Peter Holbech (14 September 1804 - 11 January 1889) was a Danish portrait painter. Biography Holbech was born on board the ''Maria Constantia'', en route from Calcutta to Copenhagen. His father was a sailing master whose family often trav ...

(1804–1889) *

Johannes Holbek Johannes Holbek (13 November 1872, in Årby, near Kalundborg – 14 May 1903, in Copenhagen) was a Danish painter and graphic artist. Biography His father was a parish priest. He graduated from the Roskilde Cathedral School in 1891 and was a ...

(1872–1903) * Christian Holm (1804–1846) *

Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, often referred to as H.G.F. Holm, (23 April 1803, Berlin – 1 May 1861, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist and engraver who is remembered for his finely detailed topographical paintings and drawings of Copenhagen and ...

(1803–1861) *

Paul Høm Paul Briegel Høm (2 May 1905, Ballerup – 25 September 1994, Gudhjem) was a Danish artist who is remembered for his religious paintings and brightly coloured stained glass windows which decorate a number of Danish churches. Biography Høm studi ...

(1905–1994) *

Christian Horneman Christian Horneman (15 August 1765 – 7 March 1844) was a Danish miniature and pastels painter, mainly known for portraits. He was the father of the composer Emil Horneman and grandfather of C. F. E. Horneman, also a composer. Biography Horne ...

(1765–1844) * Johannes Holt-Iversen (born 1989) *

Sophie Holten Sophie Holten (1858–1930) was a Danish painter who created portraits, flower paintings and genre works. She is remembered in particular for her portraits of August Strindberg and L. A. Ring. She was also active in social work and feminism. Bio ...

(1858–1930), painter *

Suzette Holten Suzette Catherine Holten (née Skovgaard, 29 January 1863 – 11 February 1937) was a Danish painter and ceramist who belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists. In addition to landscapes, flower paintings and portraits, she created and decorated ...

(1863–1937), painter, ceramist * Oluf Høst (1884–1966) *

Bizzie Høyer Jacobine (Bizzie) Severine Henriette Høyer (26 March 1888 – 10 May 1971) was a Danish painter and art teacher. Biography Born in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Høyer attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1909. ...

(1888–1971) * Cornelius Høyer (1741–1804) *

Knud Hvidberg Knud Wedel Hvidberg (27 May 1927 – 5 May 1986) was a Danish painter and sculptor. Biography Born in Holstebro in central Jutland, Hvidberg was a self-taught artist. In the early 1960s, he first painted in a Constructivist style inspired by Gunn ...

(1927–1986) *

Ejnar Hansen (painter) Ejnar Hansen (1884 – September 26, 1965) was a Danish-born American portrait painter and art educator. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Laguna Art Museum and is also held at the San Diego ...

(1884–1965)

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* Peter Ilsted (1861–1933) * Valdemar Irminger (1850–1938) * Victor Isbrand (1897–1989)

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Egill Jacobsen Egill Jacobsen (16 December 1910 – 21 April 1998) was a Danish painter who became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Jacobsen studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kræsten Iversen ...

(1910–1998) * Georg Jacobsen (1887–1976) *

Robert Jacobsen Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen (4 June 1912 – 26 January 1993) was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert Award is named in his honor. Biography Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen. He was self-taught as a sculptor. During World War I, ...

(1912–1993) *

Ville Jais-Nielsen Vilhelmine "Ville" Jais Nielsen (née Oppenheim; 1 May 1886 – 7 November 1949) was a Danish painter and sculptor. She is remembered for the many portraits of women she painted while in Sweden during the Second World War, marked by strong brushs ...

(1885–1949) * Axel P. Jensen (1885–1972) *

Christian Albrecht Jensen Christian Albrecht Jensen (26 June 1792 – 13 July 1870) was a Danish portrait painting, portrait painter who was active during the Danish Golden Age, Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century. Painting more than 400 ...

(1792–1870) *

Johan Laurentz Jensen Johan Laurentz Jensen, often referred to as J. L. Jensen (8 March 1800 – 26 March 1856), was a Danish artist who specialized in flower painting.

(1800–1856) * Karl Jensen (1851–1933) *

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann (21 November 1819 – 11 July 1881) was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau. Early life and career Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was born in Żoliborz (Fr ...

(1819–1881) *

Harald Jerichau Harald Adolf Nikolaj Jerichau (18 August 1851 – 6 March 1878) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography Jerichau was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was the sculptor, Jens Adolf Jerichau, and his mother was the painter, Elisabeth Jer ...

(1851–1878) * August Jerndorff (1846–1906) * Carl Ludwig Jessen (1833–1917) *

Svend Johansen Svend Johansen (10 September 1890 – 6 October 1970) was a Danish painter, scenographer and illustrator. Biography Born in Gentofte, Johansen attended the Copehangen Technical School where he met Poul Henningsen who became a friend and associate ...

(1890–1970) * Asger Jorn (1914–1973) * Jens Juel (1745–1802)

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Ludvig Kabell Ludvig Christian Brinck-Seidelin Kabell (21 July 1853, Vejlby, Norddjurs Municipality - 1 February 1902, Fredensborg) was a Danish landscape painter. Biography His father was a priest. When he was ten, the family moved to Zealand and he attende ...

(1853–1902) *

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(1805–1891) * Anton Eduard Kieldrup (1826–1869) * Helvig Kinch (1872–1956) *

Per Kirkeby Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 – 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. Biography By the time Kirkeby completed a masters degree in arctic geology at the University of Copenhagen in 1964, he was already part of the ...

(1938–2018) *

Kirsten Kjær Maren Kirstine (Kirsten) Kjær (1893–1985) was a self-taught Danish painter from northern Jutland. After a rather confused early life, in 1925 she realized she wanted to paint and, inspired by Gauguin's works, made a trip to France. From 1926, s ...

(1893–1985) * Anna Klindt Sørensen (1899–1985) *

Jesper Knudsen Jesper Knudsen may refer to: * Jesper Knudsen (painter) * Jesper Knudsen (badminton) Jesper Knudsen (born 22 November 1960) is a former Danish badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a ne ...

(born 1964) * Christen Købke (1810–1848) *

Elise Konstantin-Hansen Elise Konstantin-Hansen (1858–1946) was a Danish painter and ceramist. She developed her own naturalistic style, often painting sea birds, animals, plants and beach scenes. Early life and education Konstantin-Hansen was born in the Frederiks ...

(1858–1946) *

John Kørner John Kørner (born in 1967) is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Kørner was born in Aarhus, Denmark. His paintings feature a mixture of figurative and abstract imagery rendered in watered-down acrylic. Some common motifs are people, animals ...

(born 1967) * Hendrick Krock (1671–1738) *

Christian Krogh Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life. He was the director and s ...

(1852–1925) * Pietro Krohn (1840–1905) *

Marie Krøyer Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (11 June 1867 – 25 May 1940) commonly known as Marie Krøyer, was a Danish painter. She is remembered principally as the wife of Peder Severin Krøyer, one of the most successful members of the artists' colony kn ...

(1867–1940) * Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909) *

Albert Küchler Albert Küchler, O.F.M., (2 May 1803 – 16 February 1886) 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. Lat ...

(1803–1886) *

Michael Kvium Michael Otto Albert Kvium (born 15 November 1955) is a Danish artist. He has excelled in a number of fields such as painting, illustrating, sculpting and various performing arts, performance genres. Since the early 1980s, he has created grotesque r ...

(born 1955) *

Vilhelm Kyhn Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn (March 30, 1819 – May 11, 1903) 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 outliv ...

(1819–1903)

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Alhed Larsen Alhed Maria Larsen née Warberg (7 April 1872, in Heden near Faaborg – 31 August 1927, in Odense), the wife of Johannes Larsen, was one of the ''Fynboerne'' or "Funen Artists" who lived and worked on the Danish island of Funen. She appears to hav ...

(1872–1927) *

Emanuel Larsen Carl Frederik Emanuel Larsen usually known as Emanuel Larsen (15 September 1823, Copenhagen – 24 September 1859, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter who specialized in marine painting. Biography Larsen was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of ...

(1823–1859) * Johannes Larsen (1867–1961) * Freddie A. Lerche (born 1937) *

Harald Leth Harald Leth (5 January 1899 in Copenhagen – 14 March 1986 in Ålsgårde) was a Danish painter whose Naturalistic work was inspired by Johannes Larsen of the Funen Painters and Oluf Høst of the Bornholm School.Hans-Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, " ...

(1899–1986) *

Georg Emil Libert Georg Emil Libert (2 August 1820 – 19 May 1908) was a Danish landscape painter. His specialties included scenes featuring Danish, German and Norwegian landscapes. Biography Libert was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Johan Chri ...

(1820–1908) *

Christian August Lorentzen Christian August Lorentzen (10 August 1749 – 8 May 1828) was a Danish painter. Early life and education Christian August Lorentzen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Peter Lorentzen and Maria Christina Hansdatter. His ...

(1746–1828) *

Christine Løvmand Christine Marie Løvmand (19 March 1803 – 10 April 1872) was a Denmark, Danish artist who specialized in paintings of flowers and still lifes. She was one of the few women at the time who gained recognition as a painter. Biography As a child, ...

(1803–1872) * Jens Lund (1871–1924) *

J. L. Lund Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund (primarily known as J. L. Lund) (16 October 1777 – 3 March 1867) 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 r ...

(1777–1867) *

Johan Thomas Lundbye Johan Thomas Lundbye (1 September 1818 – 25 April 1848) 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 Den ...

(1818–1848) *

Anders Christian Lunde Anders Christian Lunde (24 October 1809, Copenhagen – 26 October 1886, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter, a minor participant in the Golden Age of Danish painting. He painted his native Denmark including the north of Zealand and the is ...

(1809–1886) *

Marie Luplau Henriette Marie Antonette Luplau (September 7, 1848 – August 16, 1925) was a Danish artist and educator, active in the women's movement. She conducted an art school for women in Copenhagen with her partner, artist Emilie Mundt. Early life and e ...

(1848–1925) *

Anne Marie Lütken Anna Maria (Anne Marie) Lütken (1916–2001) was a Danish painter who is remembered above all for her distinctive figure paintings, frequently based on her mother, her grandmother or herself as models. She also painted scenes of nature, including ...

(1916–2001) *

Julie Lütken Marie Dorethea Juliane (Julie) Lütken (1788–1816) was a Danish painter who specialized in landscapes. Unusually for her times when women were not admitted to the Academy, thanks to the private instruction she received from Claudius Mørch, Carl ...

(1788–1816)

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Niels Macholm Niels Macholm (26 August 1915 – 5 November 1997) was a self-taught Danish artist. He had his debut at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling in 1944 and received the Eckersberg Medal The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or ...

(1915–1997) * Ernst Mahler (1797–1861) *

Lise Malinovsky Lise Malinovsky (born 1957) is a Danish painter whose early colourful, abstract works represent paraphrases of the well-known classical masters. Her later work addresses themes such as death and sensuality, often with images of animals or insects ...

(born 1957) * Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911–1984) *

Wilhelm Marstrand Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand (24 December 1810 – 25 March 1873), 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 ar ...

(1810–1873) *

Anton Melbye Daniel Herman Anton Melbye (13 February 1818, Copenhagen – 10 January 1875, Paris) was a Danish painter and photographer who specialized in maritime scenes. He was the brother of painters Vilhelm and Fritz Melbye. Biography His father was a ...

(1818–1875) *

Fritz Melbye Fritz Sigfred Georg Melbye (24 August 1826 – 14 December 1869) was a Danish marine painter, the brother of Anton Melbye and Vilhelm Melbye who were also marine painters. He traveled widely, painting seascapes, coastal and harbour scenes as wel ...

(1826–1869) *

Vilhelm Melbye Knud Frederik Vilhelm Hannibal Melbye (14 May 1824 – 6 October 1882) was a Danish marine artist. Over the course of his career, he painted seascapes, coastal and harbor scenes, sailing vessels and topographical subjects in many parts of Europe, ...

(1824–1882) *

Albert Mertz Albert Axel Tonndorff Mertz (31 January 1920 – 30 December 1990) was a Danish painter. He was one of the leading artists in the Linien II artists association, working in a Constructivist style in a limited number of strong colours. Biography ...

(1920–1990) *

Ernst Meyer Ernst Meyer may refer to: * Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791–1858), German botanist * Ernst Meyer (painter) (1797-1861), Danish painter * Ernst Meyer (Swedish politician) (1847–1925), Swedish politician * Ernst Meyer (German politician) (1 ...

(1797–1861) *

Jens Peter Møller Jens Peter Møller (4 October 1783 Faaborg – 29 September 1854) was a Danish painter. Early life Møller was a landscape painter and the son of a potter. He was born in Faaborg and grew up with a relative in Eckernförde in Schleswig. Togeth ...

(1783–1854) * Mogens Møller (1934–2021) *

Valdemar Schønheyder Møller Valdemar Christian Schønheyder Møller (5 January 1864 – 3 May 1905) was a Danish painter, known principally for his depictions of sunlight. Biography Møller was born at Aarhus, Denmark. He was the son of Carl Johan Ferdinand Møller (1815 ...

(1864–1905) *

David Monies David Monies (3 June 1812, Copenhagen - 29 April 1894, Frederiksberg) was a Danish portrait and genre painter. Biography His father, Salomon (1786-1853) was a Jewish businessman from the Netherlands. Originally wealthy, the family lost all of i ...

(1812–1894) * Christian Mølsted (1862–1930) * Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859–1941) * Richard Mortensen (1910–1993) *

Adam August Müller Adam August Müller (16 August 1811 – 15 March 1844), a Danish history painter, was one of Eckersberg's favourite students. Generally unhealthy and dead at 32, his work is recognized as an important component in Danish art. His favourite sub ...

(1811–1844) *

Emilie Mundt Caroline Emilie Mundt (22 August 1842, Sorø – 25 October 1922, Frederiksberg) was a Danish painter, known for her portraits of children. Biography Her father, Carl Emil Mundt, was a Professor of mathematics at the Sorø Academy. Her mother ...

(1842–1922)

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Elisabeth Neckelmann Elisabeth Neckelmann (1884–1956) was a Danish painter. Her early associations with the Funen Painters influenced her work which consisted mainly of flower paintings and landscapes but also included portraits. From 1924 to 1954, she headed the D ...

(1884–1956) *

Hermania Neergaard Hermania Sigvardine Neergaard (1799–1875) was a Danish flower and still-life painter. A student of Frederik Christian Camradt (1762–1844), she exhibited her paintings in Charlottenborg where several were bought by the royal family. Biograph ...

(1799–1875) * Rasmus Nellemann (1923–2004) *

Arthur Nielsen Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr. (September 5, 1897 – June 1, 1980) was an American businessman, electrical engineer and market research analyst who created and tracked the Nielsen ratings for television as founder of the A.C. Nielsen Company. Backg ...

(1883–1946) *

Ejnar Nielsen Ejnar Nielsen (9 July 1872 – 21 July 1956) was a Danish painter and illustrator, who was a central proponent of Symbolist painting in Danish art. He is also known for his large mosaic on Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theat ...

(1872–1956) *

Jais Nielsen Johannes Knud Ove Jais-Nielsen (23 April 1885 – 8 November 1961) was a Danish painter, designer and ceramist, best known for the religious figure groups that he designed for the Royal Copenhagen pottery. Biography Nielsen was born in Copenhage ...

(1885–1961) *

Thorvald Niss Thorvald Simeon Niss (7 May 1842 – 11 May 1905) was a Danish landscape painter who became interested in marine art after becoming a member of the Skagen Painters. Biography Born in Assens, he was the son of Niels Frederik Niss, a house painte ...

(1842–1905) *

Emil Normann Emil Wilhelm Normann (18 December 1798 – 21 June 1881) was a Danish painter and naval officer. Biography Normann, who initially developed his painting abilities through his own resources, became a student in Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's p ...

(1798–1881) *

Ernestine Nyrop Ernestine Nyrop (1888–1975) was a Danish textile artist and fresco painter who is remembered for decorating churches in Denmark and Sweden. In 1930, she published a series of traditional Danish sewing and weaving patterns in ''Danske Mønstre ti ...

(1888–1975)

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Henrik Olrik Ole Henrik Benedictus Olrik (24 May 1830 – 2 January 1890) was a Danish painter, sculptor and applied artist. Early life and education Henrik Olrik, born in Copenhagen, was son of customs inspector Henrik Johan Ludvig Olrik and Benedicte Marti ...

(1830–1890) * John Olsen (born 1938) *

Erik Ortvad Erik Ortvad (born in Copenhagen, 18 June 1917; died in Kvänjarp, 28 February 2008) was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings He also created several ...

(1917–2008)

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Vilhelm Pacht Lauritz Vilhelm Pacht (23 November 1843 – 20 May 1912) was a Danish genre painter, industrialist and philanthropist. Biography Pacht was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Lauritz Adolph Pacht (1819–68) and Eleonora Wilhelmine H ...

(1843–1912) * Erik Pauelsen (1749–1790) *

Julius Paulsen Julius Paulsen (22 October 1860 in Odense – 17 February 1940 in Copenhagen) was a Danish painter. From 1879 to 1882 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he was later a professor. He had strong connections with several of th ...

(1860–1940) *

Carl-Henning Pedersen Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913 – 20 February 2007) was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th ...

(1913–2007) *

Sophie Pedersen Sophie Petrine Pedersen (15 January 1885 – 1 October 1950) was a Danish painter. She specialized in landscapes, including scenes of Copenhagen's streets and parks, but also created portraits and figure paintings. From 1921 to 1924, she headed ...

(1885–1850) * Vilhelm Pedersen (1820–1859) *

Anna Petersen Anna Sophie Lorenze Petersen (20 February 1845 – 6 October 1910) was a Danish painter. Although she showed some promise as an artist, specifically in genre painting, she struggled to find a place in the male-dominated Danish art world of the ...

(1845–1910) * Edvard Petersen (1841–1911) *

Leif Sylvester Petersen Leif Sylvester Petersen, (born 18 April 1940) in Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 ...

(born 1940) *

Vilhelm Petersen Vilhelm Valdemar Petersen (5 April 1830 – 3 July 1913) was a Danish architect who became Royal Building Inspector from 1892 until his death. He was the father of architect Knud Arne Petersen. Biography Vilhelm Petersen was born in Copenh ...

(1812–1880) *

Fritz Petzholdt Ernst Christian Petzholdt, known as Fritz (1 January 1805 – 29 August 1838) was a Denmark, Danish landscape painting, landscape painter of the ''Copenhagen School'', also known as the Danish Golden Age, Golden Age of Danish Painting. He spent m ...

(1805–1838) * Theodor Philipsen (1840–1920) *

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

(1830–1903) * Gudrun Poulsen (1918–1999) *

Bolette Puggaard Bolette Cathrine Frederikke Puggaard née Hage (1798–1847) was a landscape painter of the Danish Golden Age, one of very few 19th-century Danish women whose art extended beyond flower paintings. She and her husband, the merchant and shipowne ...

(1798–1847)

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* Pia Ranslet (born 1956) * Tal R (born 1967) * Erik Raadal (1905–1941) *

Johannes Rach Johannes Rach (1720 – 4 August 1783) was a Danish painter and draughtsman whose works from Copenhagen and Indonesia are a valuable source of architectural and cultural historic knowledge. He began his artistic career painting topographical vi ...

(1720–1783) *

Carl Rasmussen Jens Erik Carl Rasmussen (31 August 1841 – 1 October 1893) was a Danish painter best known for his marine art and scenes of Greenland. Biography Rasmussen was born at Ærøskøbing in Ærø, Denmark. He was the son of Johan Aranth Rasmusse ...

(1841–1893) *

Louise Ravn-Hansen Louise Christiane Ravn-Hansen (19 July 1849, in Copenhagen – January 1909, in the Havel River, near Schwanenwerder) was a Danish landscape painter and etcher. Biography Her father was a railroad stoker. She lost both parents when she was ei ...

(1849–1909) * Jytte Rex (born 1942) * L.A. Ring (1854–1933) * Elof Risebye (1892–1961) *

Jørgen Roed Jørgen Roed, (13 January 1808 – 8 August 1888), 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. Biography Growing up His father, ...

(1808–1888) * Johan Rohde (1856–1935) *

Martinus Rørbye Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye (; 17 May 1803 – 29 August 1848) 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. Th ...

(1803–1848) * Vilhelm Rosenstand (1838–1915) *

Godtfred Rump Christian Godtfred Rump (8 December 1816 – 25 May 1880) was one of the most productive Danish painters of his times. He first painted mainly genre and history works but later concentrated on landscapes. Biography Born in Hillerød, Rump moved ...

(1816–1880)

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August Schiøtt Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt (17 December 1823 – 25 June 1895) was a Danish portrait painter. Biography August Schiøtt was born in Helsingør, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Erpecum Schiøtt and Anna Sophie Marie Fleron. His father w ...

(1823–1895) * Alfred Schmidt (1858–1938) *

Ludvig Abelin Schou Ludvig Abelin Schou, known as L.A. Schou (11 January 1838, in Slagelse – 30 September 1867, in Florence), was a Danish Romantic painter, the older brother of Peter Alfred Schou. Biography He was born to a family of merchants. When he was six, ...

(1838–1867) *

Peter Alfred Schou Peter Alfred Schou (known as P.A. Schou; 8 October 1844 – 21 November 1914) was a Danish painter. Biography He was born at Copenhagen to a family of merchants from Slagelse shortly after their arrival in Copenhagen. He was the brother of Ludv ...

(1844–1914) *

Ole Schwalbe Ole Albert Christian Schwalbe (23 July 1929 – 15 October 1990) was a Danish painter. He was one of the painters in the Linien artists association who in 1956 initiated the second generation of Danish Constructivism which they called concrete rea ...

(1929–1990) *

Carl Christian Seydewitz Carl Christian von Seydewitz (3 November 1777 – 10 October 1857) was a Danish-German portrait painter and army officer. He was not a member of the nobility but, from 1770 to 1860, officers were allowed to use "von" with their surnames. Biog ...

(1777–1857) *

Herman Siegumfeldt Herman Carl Siegumfeldt (18 September 1833 - 27 June 1912) was a Danish genre and landscape painter. Biography Siegumfeldt was born at Haregabsgaarden in the parish of Esbønderup in North Zealand, Denmark. He was the son of Heinrich Anton ...

(1833–1912) *

Alfred Simonsen Alfred Simonsen (16 December 1906 – 12 April 1935) was a Danish painter who in the early 1930s became associated with the artists' colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters. When he died at the early age of 27, he had only c ...

(1906–1935) *

Niels Simonsen Niels Simonsen (10 December 1807 – 11 December 1885) was a Danish painter, lithographer and sculptor. Biography Simonsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Simnon Rasmusson and Bolette Nielsdatter. His parents were shop ...

(1807–1885) * Joakim Skovgaard (1856–1933) * Niels Skovgaard (1858–1938) *

P.C. Skovgaard Peter Christian Thamsen Skovgaard (known as P. C. Skovgaard; 4 April 1817 – 13 April 1875) 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 ...

(1817–1875) *

Agnes Slott-Møller Agnes Slott-Møller, née Rambusch (10 June 1862, in Nyboder – 11 June 1937, in Løgismose, Assens Municipality), was a Danish Symbolist painter; influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. She is known for works inspired by Danish history and folklor ...

(1862–1937) *

Harald Slott-Møller Harald Slott-Møller (17 August 1864 – 20 October 1937) 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). Early life Born in Cope ...

(1864–1937) * Frederik Sødring (1809–1862) *

Jens Søndergaard Jens Søndergaard (October 4, 1895 – May 21, 1957) was a Danish expressionist painter. He specialised in strongly coloured landscapes depicting his feelings for the power of nature and the sea. Søndergaard won both national and international ...

(1895–1957) * Jørgen Sonne (1801–1890) *

Carl Frederik Sørensen Carl Frederik Sørensen (8 February 1818, Besser, Samsø – 24 January 1879, Copenhagen) 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, Londo ...

(1818–1879) *

Ole Sporring Ole Hofman Sporring (born 24 April 1941) is a Danish painter and illustrator who develops social and ecological themes in his graphic prints and paintings. Biography Born in Frederiksberg, Sporring studied at the graphic and paintings schools of ...

(born 1941) *

Niels Larsen Stevns Niels Larsen Stevns (9 July 1864 – 27 September 1941) was a Danish painter and sculptor. He was originally educated as a journeyman painter but attended Kunstakademiet in the years 1886–1887 and 1892–1894. He assisted Joakim Skovgaard decora ...

(1864–1941) * Christine Swane (1876–1960) *

Sigurd Swane Sigurd Swane (16 June 1879 – 9 April 1973) was a Danish Post-impressionist painter and poet; known primarily for his landscapes. Biography Swane was born in Frederiksberg. He studied in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 1899 ...

(1879–1973) *

Anna Syberg Anna Louise Birgitte Syberg (7 January 1870 – 4 July 1914) was a Danish painter. Together with her husband Fritz Syberg, she was one of the Funen Painters (''Fynboerne'') who lived and worked on the island of Funen. She is remembered for he ...

(1870–1914) *

Ernst Syberg Ernst Axel Syberg (12 January 1906 – 17 August 1981) was a Danish painter who in the early 1930s associated with the artists' colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters. From 1934, he was a member of Corner where he exhibited ...

(1906–1981) * Fritz Syberg (1862–1939)

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Carl Thomsen Carl Christian Frederik Jacob Thomsen (6 April 1847 – 4 October 1912) was a Danish painter and illustrator. He specialized in genre painting and also illustrated the works of several Danish authors. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Thomsen was th ...

(1847–1912) *

Reinhold Timm Reinhold Timm (died 12 January 1639) was a Danish painter. From 1619 he participated in the decoration in the Long Hall at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen with 7 or 8 large allegorical paintings of which only one, ''Unge mænd brydes på en bro'', ...

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Peter Tom-Petersen Peter Tom-Petersen (5 March 1861 – 27 July 1926) was a Danish painter and graphic artist, known primarily for cityscapes, interiors and other architectural paintings. His name was Peter Thomsen Petersen until 1920, when he had it legally changed ...

(1861–1926) *

Kurt Trampedach Kurt Trampedach (13 May 1943 – 12 November 2013) was a Danish painter and sculptor. Biography Trampedach was born at Hillerød. He studied at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1969. He had his artistic breakthrough by the end of the ...

(1943–2013) *

Eleonora Tscherning Eleonora Christine Tscherning (1817–1890) was a Danish painter who created flower paintings and later landscapes, often working in the open air. She is also remembered as one of the most important memoirists of her day, writing letters and dia ...

(1817–1890) *

Laurits Tuxen Laurits Regner Tuxen (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) 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 ...

(1853–1927) *

Nicoline Tuxen Bertha Nicoline Tuxen (14 November 1847 – 5 April 1931) was a Danish painter of still lifes, flowers, and portraits. Life Nicoline Tuxen was a daughter of the naval officer and director of the Orlogsværftet Nicolai Elias Tuxen (1810-1891) an ...

(1853–1927)

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Herman Vedel Herman Vedel (1 March 1875 – 1 December 1948) was a Danish painter. He was the leading Danish portraitist of his time. One of his most well-known works is ''Negotiating the 1915 Constitution'' which features prominently in Christiansborg Palace ...

(1875–1948)

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Olga Wagner Olga Rosalie Aloisa Wagner née Packness (1873–1963) was a Danish painter and sculptor. After specializing in painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she was trained as a sculptor by her husband Siegfried. She worked together with him ...

(1873–1963) *

Bertha Wegmann Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Life When Bertha Wegmann was five years old, her family moved to Copenhagen, where her ...

(1847–1926) * Edvard Weie (1879–1943) *

Friedrich Bernhard Westphal Friedrich Bernhard Westphal (5 October 1803, Schleswig – 24 December 1844) was a German-Danish genre painter and illustrator. He was also known by his nickname Fritz Westphal. Life From 1821 to 1826 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy ...

(1803–1844) * Johannes Wilhjelm (1868–1938) * Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863–1958) *

Svend Wiig Hansen Svend Wiig Hansen (20 December 1922 – 15 March 1997) was a Danish sculptor and painter. Biography Wiig Hansen was born in Møgeltønder. He was initially undecided about his career, working as a circus clown and a singer until a job requiring hi ...

(1922–1997) *

Bjørn Wiinblad Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1919 – 8 June 2006), 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 J ...

(1918–2006) * Abraham Wuchters (1608–1682)

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Christian Zacho Peter Mørch Christian Zacho, usually known as Christian Zacho, (31 March 1843, in Grenå – 19 March 1913, in Hellerup) was a Danish landscape painter who is remembered for his idyllic scenes of Danish beech woods. Early life His education at ...

(1843–1913) *

Kristian Zahrtmann Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843 – 22 June 1917) was a Denmark, Danish Painting, painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and ...

(1843–1917) * Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716–1777)

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