Achton Friis

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Achton Friis on an expedition to northeast Greenland in 1906

Johannes Achton Friis (born September 5, 1871 in Trustrup near Grenaa , † December 17, 1939 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish draftsman and painter.

Life

He completed his training at the Art Academy in Copenhagen from 1895 to 1899. 1906–1908 he took part as a draftsman in the Danmark expedition to northeast Greenland, which was led by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen . The German Alfred Wegener was among the participants . After returning home, Friis published the travelogue In the Greenland Ice Sheet with Mylius-Erichsen , which he and the second painter and draftsman of the expedition, Aage Bertelsen , illustrated richly. In north-east Greenland the geographical names Achton Friis Ø and Cape Achton Friis remind of him today .

In the 1920s and 1930s he published a multi-volume natural and cultural history description of Denmark ( De Danskes Land ), which contains his own drawings and those by Johannes Larsen .

His son was the painter and graphic artist Claus Achton Friis (1917–1999).

Publications

Achton Friis: The "Danmark" in the harbor (1907)

Danish

  • Danmarks-Ekspedionen til Grønlands Nordostkyst 1906–1908 , Copenhagen 1909, 2nd edition Gyldendal 1987.
  • Arctic hunters , 1925
  • De Danskes Land :
    • De Danskes Øer , 3 vol., 1926–1928 (132 islands on approx. 1,200 pages)
    • De Jyders Land , 1932-1933
    • Danmarks Store Øer , 1936–1937

German

  • In the Greenland Ice Sheet with Mylius-Erichsen. The Danmark Expedition 1906–1908 , Spamer, Leipzig 1910
  • Wild wide arctic. From the notes of a painter and hunter , Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1932

Web links

Commons : Achton Friis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vagn Lundbye : 79'fjorden Omkom. Tragedien på Danmark-ekspedUNGEN 1906-08 . 2nd Edition. Brøndums Forlag 1984.
  2. ↑ Achton Friis Ø . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English); accessed on June 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Cape Akhton Friis . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English); accessed on June 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Friis, Achton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friis, Johannes Achton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Trustrup at Grenaa
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1939
Place of death Copenhagen