Hans Knudsen

Hans Christian Martinus Kundsen (16 August 1865 – 6 January 1947) was a Danish artist. He is remembered principally for his landscape paintings mainly of the area of North Zealand which constituted his world of motifs.

Biography Knudsen was born in Roskilde, Denmark. He was the son of Martinus Knudsen (1831–88) and Johanne Cathrine Jensine Crone (1828–1904).

He trained as a decoration painter in Odense with Carl Frederik Aagaard (1833–1895) from 1881 to 1884. From 1888 to 1896, he trained to the school operated by Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917). He exhibited regularly at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition from 1893 to 1946.

He received the Eckersberg Medal in 1917, the Serdin Hansens Prize in 1919, the Alfred Benzon Prize in 1933, 1942 and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1944. In 1909, he married Sørine Kristine Thomsen (1880–1964). He died during 1947 west of Ganløse at Slagslunde.