Valdemar Schønheyder Møller

Valdemar Christian Schønheyder Møller (5 January 1864 – 3 May 1905) was a Danish painter, known principally for his depictions of sunlight.

Biography Møller was born at Aarhus, Denmark. He was the son of Carl Johan Ferdinand Møller (1815–73) and Reinholdine Christiane Schønheyder (1835–1904). It was there he became friends with Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) and took photographs that became the basis for some of Hammershøi's early paintings. He was, in fact, one of the earliest Danish painters to use photography as an artistic medium.

In 1891, he moved to Skagen, where he became acquainted with the Skagen Painters, and remained there until 1893. It was in Skagen that he began his intensive study of the effects of light.

In 1894, he went to Paris to join his brother, Tyge, who was an art collector; then settled in Fontainebleau in 1896.