Edvard Petersen (4 February 1841 – 5 December 1911) was a

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painter. He also designed the Stork Fountain on

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. Petersen, Edvard Frederik ''Dansk biografisk Lexikon'' Access date January 1, 2021

Biography

From 1851 he attended the

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. In the 1860s and 1870s he painted romantic landscape paintings under influence of Vilhelm Kyhn. He was a close friend of fellow painter

Theodor Philipsen Theodor Esbern Philipsen (10 June 18403 March 1920) was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay. Biography Theodor Philipsen was born at Copenhagen to a cultured me ...

and together they went on several travels, including two stays in

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between 1875 and 1880 and a visit to

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. The friendship did not seem to influence Petersen's rather conservative style of painting and his works from the times abroad are generally traditional paintings of local life. In the 1880s Petersen painted a number of figure paintings of street life in Copenhagen under influence of French

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. His most famous paintings are ''Emigrants on Larsens Plads'' (1890) and ''A Return, the America Liner at Larsens Plads'' (1894). With his Stork Fountain proposal, Petersen won the competition for the design of a new fountain on

in Copenhagen in 1888. The sculptor

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moulded the birds and the fountain was inaugurated in 1904.

Gallery

File:Torvet i Sulmona (Petersen).jpg, ''The square in

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'' File:Edvard Petersen - Højbro Plads.jpg, ''Farmers' wives at Højbro Plads'' (1883) File:Edvard Petersen - Udvandrere på Larsens Plads (1890).jpg, ''Emigrants at Larsens Plads'' (1890) File:Ved Capucinerklostret i Rom (Petersen).jpg, ''At the Capuchin Monastery in Rome'' (1911)

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