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Danish design is a style of functionalistic design and architecture that was developed in mid-20th century. Influenced by the German Bauhaus school, many Danish designers used the new industrial technologies, combined with ideas of simplicity and functionalism to design buildings, furniture and household objects, many of which have become ...
This is a list of Danish furniture designers. Summary biographies and background on many of the most important players can be found in the Danish modern article which covers Denmark's richest furniture design period.
The Danish Golden Age (Danish: Den danske guldalder) covers a period of exceptional creative production in Denmark, especially during the first half of the 19th century. [1] Although Copenhagen had suffered from fires, bombardment and national bankruptcy, the arts took on a new period of creativity catalysed by Romanticism from Germany .
Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot . For many early periods, it is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia .
B.S. Christiansen, Danish special force soldier, TV personality; Louise Conring (1824–1891), first trained nurse in Denmark, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute; Natasja Crone Back, journalist, host at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001; Alma Dahlerup (1874–1969), Danish-American philanthropist; Thomas Dam
Henrik Olrik (1830–1890), designs for tableware; Hans Pauli Olsen (born 1957), public works in Tórshavn; John Olsen (1938–2019), works based on birds and animals in natural materials; Willy Ørskov (1920–1990), plastics and inflatable materials; Kirsten Ortwed (born 1948), striking sculptures in public places
This is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Børge Mogensen was born in Aalborg, Denmark. He started as a cabinetmaker in 1934, and studied furniture design at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen from 1936 to 1938, [1] and then trained as an architect (from 1938 to 1942) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture graduating in 1942.