Hans Peter Hansen

Hans Peter Hansen (20 December 1829 – 18 November 1899) was a

Hansen was born in

In 1854, he travelled to Germany, first to Dresden and then to Leipzig, where he settled. In 1859, he married Clara Aurelia Sophie Langer (5 August 1830 – 1 July 1913), the daughter of the engraver Georg Gottfried Langer and sister of engraver Karl Hermann Theodor Langer (17 December 1819 – 1895).

In 1864, he returned to Copenhagen, where he worked for several illustrated magazines and newspapers, such as Illustreret Tidende and Ude og Hjemme. He also illustrated books, amongst them Nyere Dansk Malerkunst (Sigurd Müller, 1884) and the children books printed by Richardt's and Rode's.

References

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• Dansk biografisk lexikon: tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537–1814; Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1887–1905; vol. VI (1892), p. 633. URL last accessed 2007-09-12. The original version of this article was translated from this entry by Camillus Nyrop (1843 - 1918)
  in this Danish public domain encyclopedia.
• Kunst Indeks Danmark: Hans Peter Hansen. URL last accessed 2007-09-16.
• Thieme-Becker, entry "Hansen, Hans Peter".

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