Valdemar Irminger

Valdemar Irminger studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Training under Johan Ludwig Lund is recorded. Augusta Thejll Clemmensen and Agnes Smidt are recorded as having studied under Valdemar Irminger. Places of work recorded in the authority are Copenhagen. Employment is recorded with Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Work by Valdemar Irminger is recorded in the collections of Skagens Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst, Ribe Kunstmuseum, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Eckersberg Medal, Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog and De Neuhausenske Præmier.

• Illustration — Interior with Helga and Hans Tegner, 1903 Born in Copenhagen, Irminger attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1867 and 1873. He went to Italy on a scholarship from 1884 to 1887. In 1888, he won the Academy's medal for Motiv fra Børnehospitalet ved Refsnæs (View from the Children's Hospital at Refsnæs) and the following year for Fra et Børnehospital (From a Children's Hospital). His brightly-coloured open-air paintings at Refsnæs are considered to be among his finest works featuring children painted with revealing sensitivity. In 1908, he married the painter Ingeborg Plockross. Painting initially in a Realist style, from the 1890s he turned to Romanticism. His works include portraits, religious subjects, soldiers, animals and children. Irminger taught at the Academy's school for women from 1906 where he was a professor from 1908 to 1920. From 1875, Irminger was a regular exhibitor at Charlottenborg and served on the Charlottenborg Exhibition Committee from 1905 to 1908 and on the Procurement Committee from 1911 to 1917. In 1908, Irminger married the Danish sculptor Ingeborg Plockross.

The authorities additionally record the headings Valdemar Henrich Nicolas Irminger, Valdemar Henrik Nicolas Irminger, Valdemar Heinrich Nicolaus Irminger and Valdemar Heinrich Nicolas Irminger. He was the child of Johan Heinrich Georg Irminger. He married Ingeborg Plockross Irminger.

Valdemar Irminger is recorded as having received Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Eckersberg Medal and Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog.