Knud Kristiansen (politician, 1932)

Knud Kristian Augustinus Anthon Kristiansen (born January 13, 1932 in Kangerluk , † December 8, 1978 in Nuuk ) was a Greenland artist and councilor .

Life

Knud Kristiansen was the son of the hunter Karl Ole Jerimias Hans Kristiansen and his wife Karen Birthe Karoline Kirstine Broberg. On October 5, 1958, in Qeqertarsuaq , he married Elisabeth Ane Agathe Pauline Lone Zeeb (* 1934), the daughter of the hunter Ole Ludvig Mathias Thomas Zeeb and his wife Agathe Karen Marie, who came from Qaarsut .

Kristiansen trained as a carpenter, later worked as a seaman and finally found art. He created mostly imaginative and atmospheric works from bones and soapstone . In 1975 he was elected to the last National Council. Knud Kristiansen died about six weeks after the end of the last session at the age of only 46 after a prolonged illness.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c biography in Weilbach's artist lexicon
↑ ^a ^b Knud Kristiansen er død in the Atuagagdliutit of December 21, 1978
↑ Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kristiansen, Knud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kristiansen, Knud Kristian Augustinus Anthon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenland artist and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kangerluk
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1978
Place of death	Nuuk

[wkl-1] raphy in Weilbach's artist lexicon

[atua-2] Knud Kristiansen er død in the Atuagagdliutit of December 21, 1978

[3] Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).