Heinrich Dohm

Heinrich Dohm studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Training under Otto Bache and Frants Henningsen is recorded. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Copenhagen, Germany and Paris.

After serving as a painter's apprentice in 1893, Dohm attended the Danish Academy from 1894 to 1898 where he studied under Otto Bache and Frants Henningsen. He painted mainly portraits, landscapes and genre works but especially from 1900 to 1915 he made many religious paintings. His breakthrough came in 1921 when he painted King Christian X riding his white horse over the border after northern Schleswig rejoined Denmark in 1920. From 1925, he also painted landscapes of Fanø which became increasingly colourful and Impressionistic. Among his most famous works are the altarpiece in Veirup Church: Abrahams vandring til Moria Bjerg (1899), his wall painting in the chapel in Holmens Cemetery: Den store hvide flok (1908–15) and his portrait of Thorvald Stauning (1929). Dohm travelled to Germany (1895), Paris (1909), Berlin (1911–12). Holland and Belgium (1925), London (1929), and Italy (1934).

• Illustration — A sketch for a portrait of Karl Schrøder • Illustration — Den store hvide flok, 1908-1915 • Den store hvide flok (1908–15) • Ribe Amtsråd (1915) • Christian Xs ridt over grænsen (1921) • Fra havnen ved Sønderho • Thorvald Stauning (1929)