Ingeborg Frederiksen

Ingeborg Dorthea Frederiksen (9 May 1886 – 29 December 1976) was a Danish painter and botanical illustrator who is remembered for her accurate depictions of flora and fauna in Denmark and Greenland. She painted watercolours of Danish birds and flowers and published drawings of the country's principal trees. For a lengthy period, she provided assistance with the ornithological collections at the Danish Zoological Museum. In 1957, she illustrated Grøonlands Flora.

Biography Born in the village of Fangel, Odense Municipality, on the Danish island of Funen, Ingeborg Dorthea Frederiksen was the daughter of the carpenter Henrik Frederiksen and his wife Catherine Marie née Caspersen. After training in draftsmanship and engraving at the Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder, she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1908 where she studied under Laurits Tuxen and Valdemar Irminger, graduating in 1913. The illustrations she included in Grønlands Flora (1957) received positive reviews. Her detailed drawings of trees were published in 1965 in Dansk Dendrologisk Årsskrift.

Ingeborg Frederiksen died in Copenhagen on 29 December 1976.