Edvard Petersen

Edvard Petersen studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Training under P. Skovgaard and Vilhelm Kyhn is recorded. Cajus Novi is recorded as having studied under Edvard Petersen. Places of work recorded in the authority are Delft. Works named in the authority record are Emigrants at Larsens Square. Work by Edvard Petersen is recorded in the collections of Statens Museum for Kunst and ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. Distinctions recorded are Eckersberg Medal and De Neuhausenske Præmier.

• Name — Edvard Petersen • Born — 4 February 1841 • Birthplace — Copenhagen, Denmark • Died — 5 December 1911 • Place of death — Copenhagen • Known for — Painting • Training — Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts • Movement — Realism

From 1851 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In the 1860s and 1870s he painted romantic landscape paintings under influence of Vilhelm Kyhn. He was a close friend of fellow painter Theodor Philipsen and together they went on several travels, including two stays in Italy between 1875 and 1880 and a visit to France. The friendship did not seem to influence Petersen's rather conservative style of painting and his works from the times abroad are generally traditional paintings of local life. In the 1880s Petersen painted a number of figure paintings of street life in Copenhagen under influence of French Realism. His most famous paintings are Emigrants on Larsens Plads (1890) and A Return, the America Liner at Larsens Plads (1894). With his Stork Fountain proposal, Petersen won the competition for the design of a new fountain on Amagertorv in Copenhagen in 1888. The sculptor Vilhelm Bissen moulded the birds and the fountain was inaugurated in 1904.

• Illustration — The square in Sulmona • Illustration — Farmers' wives at Højbro Plads (1883) • Illustration — Emigrants at Larsens Plads (1890) • Illustration — At the Capuchin Monastery in Rome (1911)