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Arctic hunters. By Achton Friis.
Achton Johannes Friis (born September 5, 1871 in Trustrup ved Grenaa, died December 17, 1939 in København) was a Danish artist, painter and writer.
After his training as a painter, he was educated at the Kunstakademiet in Copenhagen from 1895-99. Among other things, he has made ceramics, porcelain and portraits of Danish folk types.
As a participant in the Danmark-ekspeditionen, he traveled to Northeast Greenland in the period 1906-08. During the expedition, Friis produced a large number of portraits and landscape pictures, as well as the book Danmark-ekspeditionen til Grønlands Nordøstkyst 1906-1908, published in 1909.
From 1926 to 1928 he published "De Danskes Øer". The expedition to the 132 resulted in a three-volume book in total approx. 1,200 pages. In 1932-1933 he published "De Jyders Land", 1-2, and in 1936-1937 "Danmarks Store Øer", 1-2. Tilsammen make up the værkerne, der under ét går under the designation De Danskes Land, en natur- and kulturhistorisk beskrivelse af Danmark, med dejingen by Johannes Larsen (1867-1961) and himself. "Danmarks Store Øer" also has drawings by Andreas Friis and Knud Kyhn.
Friis received the Fortjenstmedaljen in silver. He is buried at Vestre Kirkegård.
Achton Johannes Friis (born September 5, 1871 in Trustrup ved Grenaa, died December 17, 1939 in København) was a Danish artist, painter and writer.
After his training as a painter, he was educated at the Kunstakademiet in Copenhagen from 1895-99. Among other things, he has made ceramics, porcelain and portraits of Danish folk types.
As a participant in the Danmark-ekspeditionen, he traveled to Northeast Greenland in the period 1906-08. During the expedition, Friis produced a large number of portraits and landscape pictures, as well as the book Danmark-ekspeditionen til Grønlands Nordøstkyst 1906-1908, published in 1909.
From 1926 to 1928 he published "De Danskes Øer". The expedition to the 132 resulted in a three-volume book in total approx. 1,200 pages. In 1932-1933 he published "De Jyders Land", 1-2, and in 1936-1937 "Danmarks Store Øer", 1-2. Tilsammen make up the værkerne, der under ét går under the designation De Danskes Land, en natur- and kulturhistorisk beskrivelse af Danmark, med dejingen by Johannes Larsen (1867-1961) and himself. "Danmarks Store Øer" also has drawings by Andreas Friis and Knud Kyhn.
Friis received the Fortjenstmedaljen in silver. He is buried at Vestre Kirkegård.