Wilhelm Hansen

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Danish art collector (1868-1936)

FoundersLived 1868 to 1936 · aged 67

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Wilhelm Peter Henning Hansen was a Danish businessman and art collector, founder of the Ordrupgaard Art Museum north of Copenhagen.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 2

Wilhelm Hansen painted by Julius Paulsen in 1926

Awards 3

1922commander of the Order of the Dannebrog

1921Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog

1909Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Founders born in the 1860s 6

Isa bey Hajinski40.2

Willy Pöge37.8

Alfred Kordelin41.3 Karoline Friederike Oetker35.3

Emil Kolben43.5

Adolf Kohner35.2

About this person

Wilhelm Peter Henning Hansen was a Danish businessman and art collector, founder of the Ordrupgaard Art Museum north of Copenhagen. He made a fortune in the insurance industry as founder of the Danish insurance companies Dansk Folkeforsikringsanstalt and Mundus, and as managing director of Hafnia, another Danish insurance company, from 1905 until his death in 1936.