Fredrik Appel (8 August 1884 – 6 November 1962) was a Danish architect. He was born at

Rødding Rødding () is a town with a population of 2,783 (1 January 2024) in Southern Denmark. It is located in Vejen municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula. History The area around Rødding was first inhabited around 300 ...

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, where his father was a folk high school teacher at Rødding Højskole. He graduated from Odense Technical School in 1903 and from the

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark. History The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Cope ...

in 1913. He conducted study trips to

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and

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in 1908 and in Germany and Italy in 1910. Later he was in

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1922 and 1926. He was employed as an architect at the

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in 1916, became architect assistant in 1919, course architect 1923 and department architect 1946–49. He was also the head of Taastrup Technical School and Taastrup Business School 1928-39 and ran his own drawing office from 1920 to 1944 in Taastrup. He was awarded the K.A. Larssens Legat in 1910 and later was made a knight in the

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1884 births 1962 deaths People from Vejen Municipality Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Danish architects Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog {{Denmark-architect-stub

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