Frederik Riise (8 December 1863 – 11 January 1933) was a

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photographer and exhibition curator. He was a noted portrait photographer and is also remembered for his numerous photographs of buildings, streets and monuments in Copenhagen.

Early life and education

Riise was born on 8 December 1863 on Saint Thomas in the

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, the son of pharmacist Albert Heinrich Riise (1810–82) and Henriette M. Worm (1821–89). He enrolled at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

where he studied Zoology but discontinued his studies to take over his brother's photographic studio in Copenhagen.

Photographic studio

Riise's elder brother Harald Riise (17 October 1856 – 14 January 1892) trained as a photographer and travelled to Australia by way of

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in circa 1881, settling in

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where he opened a photographic studio in a partnership with

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.. He returned to Denmark in 1885 where he opened a photographic studio at

Amagertorv Amagertorv ( English: Amager Square), today part of the Strøget pedestrian zone, is often described as the most central square in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Second only to Gammeltorv, it is also one of the oldest, taking its name from the Am ...

6. He was later hit by mental illness and hospitalized at

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. The photographic studio was from 1888 continued by Frederik Riise, initially under the name H. Riises Eftfølger (H. Riise's Successor) but after approximately a year under his own name. The studio relocated to Vimmelskaftet 42 in 1897 and was from 1909 to 1913 located at Amagertorv 33.

Other activities

Riise was a board member of Dansk fotografisk forening from 1891 to 1996 and for some of the time served as vice president of the association. He was a board member of Industriforeningen in 1907–16. This introduced him to the work with arranging exhibitions. He was a commissioner at the 1913 Agricultural Exhibition in

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, the 1014 Baltic Exhibition in

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. the 1922 World Expo in

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and the 1925

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in Paris. Riise served as exspector at the lazaret camp for prisoners of war at Hald in 1917–18. In 1911 he was elected as president of the Historical-Technical Society and worked for the creation of a collection of historical technical instruments and devices. Part of the collection was later included in the collections of the Danish Technical Museum in

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Personal life

Riise married Anna Dorothea Christine Westergaard (23 November 186 – 29 July 1939), a daughter of civil servant Christian Jørgensen Worm (1824–94) and Anna Rebecca Martine Elisabeth Bille (1831–89), on 5 April 1889 in the

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. They divorced in 1912. Riise was created a Knight in the Order of the Dannebrog in 1014. He died on 11 January 1933 in

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and is buried at Solbjerg Park Cemetery in

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Gallery

Copenhagen

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Bredgade Bredgade ( lit. "Broad Street") is one of the most prominent streets in Copenhagen, Denmark. Running in a straight line from Kongens Nytorv for just under one kilometre to the intersection of Esplanaden and Grønningen, it is one of the major str ...

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Portraits

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Georg Jensen Georg Arthur Jensen (31 August 1866 in Rådvad – 2 October 1935 in Copenhagen) was a Danish silversmith and founder of Georg Jensen A/S (also known as Georg Jensen Sølvsmedie). Early life Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife g ...

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Laurits Tuxen Laurits Regner Tuxen (9 December 1853 – 21 November 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art schoo ...

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References

External links

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