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) ).
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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 |