1. Erik Ludvig Henningsen was a Danish painter and illustrator.
12 Facts About Erik Henningsen
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Erik Henningsen is best known for his Social Realist paintings of poor and exposed groups in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Erik Henningsen was the younger brother of Frants Henningsen who was a painter.
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Erik Henningsen was born on 29 August 1855 in Copenhagen to Frants Ludvig Henningsen, a grocer, and Hilda Charlotte Christine nee Schou.
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Erik Henningsen showed an early artistic talent and was articled to decorative painter A Hellesen.
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Erik Henningsen took drawing lessons privately with Christian Nielsen and was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1873.
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Erik Henningsen graduated in 1877 and won several awards and distinctions, including the Academy's Annual Medal in 1887 and 1890, the Ancher Prize in 1889, and in 1892 a travel scholarship of DKK 100.
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Erik Henningsen's travels took him to Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands.
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Erik Henningsen depicted the lighter aspects of human life, as in his paintings of street life in Copenhagen.
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Towards the turn of the century Erik Henningsen mainly painted historical scenes.
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Erik Henningsen worked as an illustrator, both for the weekly magazine Ude og Hjemme and books such as Pietro Krohns Peters Jul.
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The first prize, which was rewarded with a sum of DKK 10,000, was taken by Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, but it was ultimately Erik Henningsen's entry, known as The Thirsty Man, which was put into production by the brewery.