Knud Larsenartist • painterVinderod (Denemarken) 1865-1922 Kopenhagen

The Danish painter Knud Larsen was a landscape and genre painter in the best Scandinavian tradition. His landscapes are panoramic, bathed in a bright northern light and often have the rural people as their subject. He often found his inspiration in agricultural North and West Jutland, such as harvesting farmers or a shepherdess with herd. In addition, his oeuvre includes mundane representations, such as a woman embroidering or a tea-drinking company in a garden, clear, warm in light and full of colour. The painter attended art school between 1883 and 1889 and then traveled to England (1889), Italy (1898) and to Paris, Holland and Belgium in 1899. Larsen was also a much sought-after portrait painter.