Georg Emil Hansen

Georg Emil Hansen ( born May 12, 1833 in Næstved, † December 21, 1891 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish photographer.

Life

Georg Emil Hansen was a son of daguerreotypists Carl Christian Hansen and initially learned his father's craft. In the 1850s, he learned to work with glass negatives and paper images in Germany; In 1854, he opened with his father, a studio in Copenhagen and 1856 in a private Bredgade 22 Later he moved his studio to the Bredgade 61 and finally into the Østergade 54.

Numerous pictures of Hans Christian Andersen Georg Emil Hansen come from, including the final photographs Andersen's taken on September 26, 1874 a few months before his death.

The National Portrait Gallery in London has 26 Photos that created Hansen.

Awards

Medals

Title as court photographer

No later than 1880, he was - as documented in an unidentified hand dated of even Carte de Visite ( CDV) - also court photographer

  • " H. R. H. the Prince of Wales ",
  • " De la Cour de Russie " ( the court of the Russian Tsar ) and
  • The Court of His Majesty the King of Greece.
Visiting card National Portrait Gallery (London) Royal warrant of appointment Mariano Padilla y Ramos
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