Vilhelm Bissen
Danish sculptor
Died when: 76 years 258 days (920 months)Star Sign: Leo
Christian Gottlieb Vilhelm Bissen (5 August 1836 – 20 April 1913) was a Danish sculptor.He was also a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with great influence on the next generation of Danish sculptors and for a while served as its director.
Bissen was trained in the Neoclassical tradition from Bertel Thorvaldsen but after a stay in Paris around 1880, he was influenced by Naturalism.
With the equestrian statue of Absalon he turned to Neo-romanticism.
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