Odense is the third-largest city in Denmark. It has a population of 179,601, and is the main city of the island of Funen. By road, Odense is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of Svendborg, 144 kilometres (89 mi) to the south of Aarhus and 167 kilometres (104 mi) to the southwest of Copenhagen. The city is the seat of Odense Municipality and was the seat of Odense County until 1970, and Funen County from 1970 until 1 January 2007, when Funen County became part of the Region of Southern Denmark. Odense has close associations with Hans Christian Andersen who is remembered above all for his fairy tales. He was born in the city in 1805 and spent his childhood years there.
Hack Kampmann was a Danish architct, Royal Inspector of Listed State Buildings in Jutland and professor at the architecture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus, built between 1899 and 1902, is among his best known works.
Niels Hansen Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and ceramist. He is most famous for creating the once controversial sculpture, Trold, der vejrer kristenblod. The name of the statue is taken from a story in Norse folklore where the hero hides in the troll's castle. Thereafter, whenever the troll enters the castle, he cries: "I smell a Christian man's blood!"
Heinrich (Henry) Emil Charles Wenck was a Danish architect, known for the numerous railway stations he designed in his capacity of chief architect for the Danish State Railways from 1894 to 1921. During the years Wenck held the post, the railway network in Denmark experienced a strong expansion and he designed around 150 stations of which 15 are listed today. Among these are Copenhagen Central Station and the Øresund Railway stations which are examples of his National Romantic and Historicist styles. From 1903 he was a titular professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Carl Johan Bonnesen was a Danish sculptor. Carl Johan Bonnesen specialised in depictions of animals and exotic, 'primitive' subjects as seen in the first sculpture he ever exhibited »A Victorious Group of Huns« from 1889. It was soon followed by »A Barbarian«, 1891, »The Period of the Huns«, 1893, »A Bedouin«, 1897 and »A Mounted Chinese Warrior«, 1900.
Povl Erik Raimund Baumann was a Danish architect who was a central figure during the transition from Neoclassicism to Functionalism in Danish residential architecture. In 1910 he co-founded Den frie Architektforening, an alternative architects' association, and headed it for the nine years it existed.
Holger Jacobsen was a Danish architect. His best known work is Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.
Emil Axel Berg was a Danish architect. He received the Neuhausen Prize, C. F. Hansen Medal, and Eckersberg Medal, and was honored as a Knight of Order of the Dannebrog.
Hans Christian Amberg was a Danish architect.
Hother A. Paludan was a Danish architect and civil servant.
Hjalmar Kjær was a Danish architect who worked extensively in Odense and made notable contributions to architecture in Denmark in the 19th and 20th centuries. HJalmar Kjær was the son of soap manufacturer Hans Kjær and Kathrine Rasmussen. He attended a technical college before he was admitted to the preparatory course of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1894 and graduated as an architect in May 1896.
Aage Langeland-Mathiesen was a Danish architect. He was active both in building design and restoration, and was associated with the National Museum for many years. His building designs are strongly influenced by his interest in historic architecture. He collaborated with his more wellknown colleague Ulrik Plesner on many projects.
Axel Preisler(12 May 1871 – 25 September 1930) was a Danish architect.
Axel Høeg-Hansen was a Danish architect. Stylistically he mainly worked in neoclassical and functionalist styles. He primarily worked in and around Aarhus at the turn of the 20th century.
Harald Magnus Lønborg-Jensen was a Danish architect known as a productive church and restoration-architect.
Gans Wright was a Danish architect. He served as city architect in Copenhagen from 1904 to 1925.
Julius Doris Folkmann was a Danish photographer. He was chairman of Dansk Fotografisk Forening in 1921–1040. He also worked as a cinematographer on a few films in the early 1910s.
