Ejner Bainkamp Johansson (7 March 1922 – 28 September 2001) was a Danish art historian, magister of art, writer, and documentary film director. He is also a 1998
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recipient.
Early life
Ejner Bainkamp Johansson was born in 1922 in
Copenhagen
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. He was the son of a Swedish immigrant (who became a
naturalised
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Danish citizen in 1927), Axel Robert Johansson, (b. 14. June 1897 – 25 January 1968; Copenhagen) from
Furuby
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, Småland, and a Danish mother, Margrethe Hansine Hansen (b. 22 April 1880 – 26 January 1952 in Copenhagen), from
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Career
Johansson got his magister of art in 1956 on art history. In 1967 he was employed as a television producer in
Denmark's Radio
DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterp ...
with the arts as his specialty. Here he hosted a number of late night programs on art and culture.
Johansson also assisted the
Hirschsprung Collection with several exhibits.
Personal life
Johansson had a son named Karsten Johansson (b. 1943) and through him was the paternal grandfather of actresses
Scarlett and Vanessa Johansson and Hunter, Adrian and Christian Johansson. According to Scarlett, she knows almost nothing about her grandfather. Even though she visited Denmark, she actually never met him due to his estrangement from her father.
Works
Johansson wrote a large number of cultural and art historical books. Some of them are:
* ''Dansk marinemaleri i det nittende aarhundrede'' (1951)
* ''Richard Mortensen'' (1962) (translated into English and French)
* ''Omkring Frederiksholms Kanal'' (1964)
* ''Andersens ansigter'' (1992)
* ''De danske malere i München'' (1997)
Awards
Johanson received LO's Culture Prize in 1984. He received the N. L. Høyen Medal in 1998.
References
External links
Udgivelserof Ejner Johansson i
bibliotek.dkEjner Johansson Obituary
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1922 births
2001 deaths
20th-century Danish non-fiction writers
Danish art historians
Danish male screenwriters
People from Copenhagen
Danish people of Swedish descent
20th-century screenwriters
20th-century non-fiction writers