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May 26, 1868 Aalborg, North Denmark Region, Denmark Died on 13 Dec 1933 (aged 65)

Danish sculptor (1868-1933)

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About Carl Johan Bonnesen

  • Carl Johan Bonnesen (26 May 1868 – 13 December 1933) was a Danish sculptor.
  • Carl Johan Bonnesen specialised in depictions of animals and exotic, 'primitive' subjects as seen in the first sculpture he ever exhibited »A Victorious Group of Huns« from 1889.
  • It was soon followed by »A Barbarian«, 1891, »The Period of the Huns«, 1893, »A Bedouin«, 1897 and »A Mounted Chinese Warrior«, 1900. Bonnesen soon had many commissions.
  • At the age of 22 in 1891 his first sculpture was acquired by the collector Heinrich Hirschsprung and cast in bronze (it is today exhibited in the garden by the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen).
  • His most important patron was the brewer Carl Jacobsen (Carlsberg), who among other pieces ordered »Thor Driving Across the Arch of the Sky« (in copper it stands on top of the brewery buildings at Carlsberg).
  • Bonnesens last great patron was Harald Plum, who had the huge sculpture group »Thors Fighting the Giants« placed on his private island, Thorø (it now stands by the Haustrup Plast factory on the outskirts of Odense).
  • «, 1891, »The Period of the Huns«, 1893, »A Bedouin«, 1897 and »A Mounted Chinese Warrior«, 1900.

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