Henry Heerup

Henry Heerup (4 November 1907 – 30 May 1993) was a Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Heerup was an extremely versatile artist. His works of art included paintings, lithographs, stone sculptures, linoleum cuts and drawings as well as objects which he composed from scrap.

Biography A sulcpture by Heerup at the grave of Knud W. Jensen, the founder of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Humlebæk, Denmark Henry Heerup was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. Heerup was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1926 and graduated in 1932. He studied painting under Axel Jørgensen and Einar Nielsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He also studied sculpture under Einar Utzon-Frank. He painted The Old Oak in Wolfvalley (1924) whichj was his first oil painting. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art arranged a major retrospective in celebration of Heerup's art at the time of his sixtieth birthday in 1967. The film Et år med Henry (Jørgen Roos Film. 1967) by writer and director Jens Jørgen Thorsen focused on Henry Heerup's garden and studio in Rødovre.

On his death in 1993, Henry Heerup was interred in the Assistens Cemetery in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen.