About Marie Thornam
Lived 1857 – 1901 (aged 44). Marie Thornam was a Danish painter.
Elisa Marie Thornam (12 March 1857 – 22 April 1901) was a Danish landscape painter and botanical illustrator who contributed to the Flora Danica and Botanisk Tidsskrift.
Life and career "Scene near Bagsværd Lake, Denmark" - oil on canvas by Elisa Marie Thornam, 1889. Thornam was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. She died on 22 April 1901 in Copenhagen. Her father was the painter and botanical illustrator Johan Christian Thornam (1822–1908), who taught botanical illustration and served as artist on the Galathea Expedition of 1845. A landscape painter, Thornam was a student of painters Hans Fischer and Andreas Fritz. She colored her father's contributions to the Flora Danica a Danish botanical journal.
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Who was Marie Thornam?
Danish painter
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Marie Thornam was born on 12 March 1857 in Kongens Lyngby.
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Marie Thornam died on 22 April 1901 in Copenhagen.
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Marie Thornam was a painter.
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Marie Thornam was Danish.
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· DBpedia: Elisa Marie Thornam
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