Vilhelm Bissen
Danish sculptor, author of the equestrian statue of Absalon, Copenhagen (1836-1913) · Denmark · On the map · Artists · Died at 76
Christian Gottlieb Vilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor. He was also a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with great influence on the next generation of Danish sculptors and for a while served as its director.
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Bissen was trained in the Neoclassical tradition from Bertel Thorvaldsen but after a stay in Paris around 1880, he was influenced by Naturalism. With the equestrian statue of Absalon he turned to Neo-romanticism.
