Hans Ole Brasen (16 January 1849 – 24 February 1930) was a
Danish
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painter. He won the
Eckersberg Medal
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting.
The Ec ...
in 1894.
Biography
Brasen was born in
Hillerød
Hillerød () is a Danish town with a population of 35,357 (1 January 2022)master painter Ernst Schmiegelow, who supported his artistic talent and helped him get into the
Art Academy
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.
Brasen exhibited his works for the first time in 1871 and began to receive instructions from Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen with whom he travelled to
Italy
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in 1876. In 1879, he exhibited a large painting, '' Guard Hussars watering their horses'', which won him the Academy's travel stipend. He then set out for Northern Italy, first making a stop in
Tyrol
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, then spending the winter in
Paris
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where he studied under
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...
. He then returned to Tyrol where he painted some of his must successful works. In 1885, with support from ''Det Ancherske Legat'', Brasen went on a third journey to Italy.
In 1886 he exhibited a portrait. He later spent several summers in the Sørup on the southeastern shores of Lake Esrom where he painted the washerwomen.
He was a member of Akademirådet during 1896–1914 and of Charlottenborg's Exhibition Committee from 1908–11 and again from 1914–23. Brasen received the
Eckersberg Medal
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting.
The Ec ...
in 1894.
Image gallery
Image:Sørup 1876 (Hans Ole Brasen).jpg, ''Sørup'' (1876)
Image:Hans Ole Brassen - Sørup Near Rsrom Lake. Summer Evening.jpg, ''Sørup. Summer Evening''
Image:Hans Ole Brasen - Summer Evening.jpg, ''Summer Evening''
Image:Hans Ole Brasen - Morning Greetings.jpg, ''Morning Greetings''
Image:Hans Ole Brasen - The Second Class Compartment.jpg, ''The Second Class Compartment''
Image:The silversmith and toy designer Kay Bojesen as a child playing cards with his sister Thyra.jpg, ''The silversmith and toy designer
Kay Bojesen
Kay Bojesen (15 August 1886 – 28 August 1958) was a Danish silversmith and designer. He is best known for creating wooden animals, especially his wooden monkey which was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in the nineteen-f ...
Kunstindeks Danmark
''Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon'' (Weilbach's Biographical Dictionary of Artists) is a Danish biographical dictionary of artists and architects. The current edition, which is also freely accessible online, contains the biographies of some 8,000 Danis ...