Nielsine Petersen

Nielsine Petersen (1851–1916) was a Danish sculptor.[1]

Nielsine Petersen working on a bust, c. 1890

Biography

Nielsine Caroline Petersen was born at Nyrup in the parish Højby on the island of Zealand, Denmark. She was the daughter of Mads Petersen (1875-1884) and Kirstine born Madsen (1826-c. 1885). She came to Copenhagen and visited Vilhelm Kyhn's drawing school, after which she became a student of August Saabye. She exhibited for the first time at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1880 and won the Neuhausens Prize in 1883. She then studied in Paris. She was awarded the Ingenio et arti medal in 1908.[1]

She is remembered in particular for her bronze statue of Hamlet and that of a child fishing crabs (En dreng, der fisker krabber).[2][3][4]

References
  1. Anette Sørensen. "Nielsine Petersen". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  2. "En dreng, der fisker krabber". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  3. "Nielsine Petersen". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. Barbusse, Marianne. "Nielsine Petersen (1853 - 1916)". Kvinfo (in Danish). Retrieved 19 July 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.