Johannes Bjerg

Johannes Clausen Bjerg was one of the leading Danish sculptors of the first half of the 20th-century. In the early part of his career, he worked primarily in the El Greco-style. From the mid-1920s, he became Denmark's most prominent sculptor creating numerous official monuments in the traditional Danish Neoclassical style. He became a professor at the Royal Danish Acade,y of Fine Arts in1845 and served as its director from 1943 to 1046.