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Thue Christiansen (25 February 1940 – 26 June 2022) was a Greenlandic teacher, visual artist, and politician. Christiansen is best known as the designer of the current
flag of Greenland The flag of Greenland ( or , ) was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen. It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red (bottom) with a counter-changed red-and-white disk slightly to the hoist side of centre. The entire ...
, which was adopted on 21 June 1985. A trained teacher, Christiansen was elected to the
Inatsisartut The Inatsisartut (, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Greenland in English, is the unicameral parliament (legislative branch) of Greenland, an autonomous territoryMultiple sources: * * * in the Danish Realm. Established in 1979, the parli ...
for
Siumut Siumut (SIU, ; ; ) is a political party in Greenland in the social democratic tradition. Since the establishment of home rule in 1979, it has been the dominant party in Greenland. Siumut is led by Erik Jensen, who beat the then-incumbent Prime ...
in 1979 when Greenland was granted
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. He was the Greenlandic Minister of Culture and Education from 1979 until 1983. Christiansen died on 26 June 2022, at his home in Hals,
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. He was 82.


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1940 births 2022 deaths Flag designers Government ministers of Greenland Greenlandic artists Greenlandic educators Greenlandic Inuit people 20th-century Inuit artists 20th-century indigenous leaders of the Americas 20th-century Greenlandic politicians {{Greenland-politician-stub