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Erik Ludvig Henningsen was was a popular Danish painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his realist paintings affressing social issues. They highlight poor and exposed groups during the 1880s and 1890s. He was born in Copenhagen (1855). His parents were Frants Ludvig Henningsen (1820-69) and Hilda Charlotte Christine née Schou (1824–80). They operated a grocery store. Erik had a younger brother, Frants Henningsen, who also became a painter. He demonstrated artistic abilities as a boy. He was apprecticed to decorative painter A. Hellesen. He also began private drawing lessons offered by Christian Nielsen. Erik was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1873). He graduated (1877). He went on to earn awards and distinctions, including the Academy's Annual Medal (1887 and 1890), the Ancher Prize (1889 and 1892). He won a scholarship which helped finace trips to Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands. Henningsen became associated with the Bogstaveligheden group, a forum for Realist artits with humanitarian ideals desiring an idylic society and prmoted it with imagery and debate. Henningsen genre work focused the unemployed, legal issues women and workers faced, the conditions of children and the elderly, along with every day Copenhagen life. As he was an artist with a long active life, he provides us awonderful viewvof Danish life over an extnded period. The image here is a good example of his Conhasgen daily life genre paintings (figure 1). He continued to be active into the early 20th century. He died (1930).
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