Aksel Jørgensen
Danish painter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aksel Jørgensen was a Danish painter and wood engraver. He is also remembered for his years as the director and professor at the Royal Danish Academy where he instructed many Danish illustrators. Childhood Aksel Jørgensen was born in Copenhagen. His parents were the mechanic Mathias Jørgensen and Maren née Christensen. Aksel later described his parents' home as very modest but harmonious. Like many working-class families of the time, the family lived in a very small space in a two-room apartment without sanitary facilities. At the age of four, Jørgensen became seriously ill with an otitis media, the long-term consequences of which affected his entire life. At the age of 12 he came to a family outside of the capital as a “holiday child”. A boy of the same age, whose father was a master painter, gave him a small wooden box with powder paints. Mixed with water, this was his first "watercolor box". He and his cousins put on magic shows in the attic of their parents' house. The money he earned was enough to buy his first real paint box. At the age of 14 he finished school and began his apprenticeship as a master painter with his master Marcussen. The training included painting fences, windows and doors as well as classes at the technical society school, where he learned, among other things, decorative painting. As a journeyman painter, he continued to attend this drawing school in the evenings from 1901.
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