Niels Christian Hansen

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[[File:Niels Christian Hansen 1834-1922.jpg|thumb|175px|Niels Christian Hansen, by his brother Georg (1870s)]]
[[File:Niels Christian Hansen - Agnes, Hedevig og Mathilde Ahlefeldt-Laurvigen - 1868.png|thumb|215px|Agnes, Hedevig and Mathilde [[Ahlefeldt (noble family)|Ahlefeldt-Laurvigen]]]]
'''Niels Christian Hansen''' (16 December 1834, [[Næstved]] – 25 October 1922, [[Frederiksberg]]) was a Danish portrait and [[Genre art|genre]] painter; brother of the pioneering photographer [[Georg Emil Hansen]].

== Biography ==
He was the son of , a pastry chef who became an amateur [[daguerrotypist]]. In 1851, he began to study painting at the [[Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts]], where he was awarded silver medals in 1956 and 1857. By the time he graduated, his father had opened a small photographic studio (1854), with the help of older brother Georg, but he decided to continue pursuing a career as a painter.

During the 1860s, he made numerous study trips to France and England. In 1865, he was awarded the for a scene depicting Lieutenant [[Johan Peter Andreas Anker|Johan Anker]] and his heroic actions during the [[Battle of Dybbøl]].

Eventually, he developed an interest in photography and, in 1867, together with Georg and [[Albert Schou]], a retired Lieutenant and clerk, founded the company of Hansen & Schou. Two years later, they took on another partner, the German-born (a [[bookbinder]]), so the firm was renamed [[Hansen, Schou & Weller]]. That same year, they received a [[Royal warrant of appointment]] as official court photigraphers. In 1872, they participated in the (Copenhagen) and, in 1875, received a bronze medal at a similar exhibition in Vienna.

Shortly after Schou left, in 1885, the company relocated to a fashionable location in [[Bredgade]]. Hansen retired to resume painting in 1889. Initially, perhaps influenced by his experience with photography, he painted in a very detailed [[Naturalistic]] style. Later, his choice of subjects and styles became more flexible.

He never married and was interred at the [[Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen]].

== Sources ==
* Bjørn Ochsner: ''Fotografer i og fra Danmark til og med år 1920'', Bibliotekscentralen, 1986, ISBN 87-552-1216-6
* Mette Sandbye (Ed.), ''Dansk Fotografihistorie,'' Copenhagen: [[Gyldendal]] 2004, ISBN 87-00-39586-2
* Kirsten Nannestad, "N.C. Hansen", in: Sys Hartmann (Ed.), ''[[Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon]]'', Copenhagen: [[Rosinante]] 1994-2000.

== External links ==

* [https://ift.tt/3lwfsSB More works by Hansen] @ ArtNet
* [https://ift.tt/30OwK5K Biographical data] @ the [[Kunstindeks Danmark]]





[[Category:1834 births]]
[[Category:1922 deaths]]
[[Category:Danish painters]]
[[Category:Danish portrait painters]]
[[Category:Danish genre painters]]
[[Category:Danish photographers]]
[[Category:Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni]]
[[Category:People from Næstved Municipality]]

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