Niels Skovgaard

Niels Kristian Skovgaard (2 November 1858 – 3 February 1938) was a Danish painter and sculptor. His statue of N.F.S. Grundtvig is considered to be a masterpiece of Danish sculpture. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1874 to 1879 but left without receiving a diploma. who published a book about her father entitled Et Kunstnerhjem : Niels Skovgaards Hjem paa Karlsberg ved Hillerød (An Artist's Home: Niels Skovgaard's Home on Karlsberg near Hillerød). Skovgaard died during 1938 at Kongens Lyngby and was buried at Sorgenfri Cemetery.