Hans Tegner

Hans Christian Harald Tegner, known as Hans Tegner (November 30, 1853 – April 2, 1932), was a Danish artist and illustrator, chiefly known for his illustrations of literary works by Hans Christian Andersen and Ludvig Holberg.[1]

Hans Tegner in 1881.
The Royal Danish Library.

Early life and education

Son of lithographer Isac Wilhelm Tegner, Hans studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1869 to 1878.

Career

His first art exhibition was in 1882, featuring watercolour illustrations of Hans Christian Andersen's story The Tinderbox. His second, and last, exhibition in 1889 was a watercolour painting celebrating the 50-year jubilee of the Constitution of Denmark, and was bought by king Christian IX of Denmark. From 1883 to 1888, Tegner painted a series of illustrations for the works of Ludvig Holberg, his greatest artistic accomplishment. The second great accomplishment of Tegner, was his exquisite illustrations produced for the so-called international selection (Danish: Verdensudgaven) of Andersen's fairy tales, finished in 1901.[1]

Tegner was made professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1897.[2] He illustrated a number of other books, as well as postal stamps, and the first 5-Danish krone note in 1898.[3] He was the leader of Kunsthåndværkerskolen (a part of what is now Danmarks Designskole) from 1901 to 1917, and chief designer at porcelain manufacturer Bing & Grøndahl from 1907 to 1932. He died on April 2, 1932 in Fredensborg.[2]

personal life
Valdemar Irminger: Interior with Helga and Hans Tegner, 1903

Tegner married Helga Byberg (13 January 1862 - 26 February 1945), a daughter of merchant Ole Strib Hansen B. (1812–82) and Karen Møller (1821–89), on 24 November 1896 in Sundby.

gollark: If stuff comes up in the wrong order it breaks horribly, but it somehow always avoids doing that.
gollark: I have a custom 500-line Python script which works as a webserver, HTTP client for 5 different things, and an IRC bot simultaneously.
gollark: Even the dynamic DNS thing, which just `curl`s every 5 minutes to a specific URL, broke for a few hours until I fixed it by... restarting it? And I have no idea why.
gollark: None of my setup is simple or unambigious.
gollark: I had issues porting my v1 config to the v2 caddyfile because the syntax was kind of ambiguous, and I posted on the forum and got a response eventually and stuff, but then it had annoyed me enough that I just renginced.

References
  1. Bricka, Carl Frederik, Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, vol. XVII [Svend Tveskjæg - Tøxen], 1903, p.115, Sigurd Müller, "Tegner, Hans Christian Harald".
  2. Hans Christian Harald Tegner at Gravsted.dk
  3. Hans Tegner at Gyldendals Åbne Encyklopædi


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.