Biography about Erik Hjorth Nielsen
Erik Hjorth Nielsen was born in Copenhagen in 1937. He qualified for higher education in 1956 and started at
the School of Architecture. He soon realised that he had made the wrong choice and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts (Schools of Painting and Graphic Arts), taking qualifications at the same time as an art teacher. In 1959 Erik Hjorth Nielsen decided to study to become a primary and lower secondary school teacher – while continuing his studies at the School of Graphic Arts – and qualified in 1962. From 1971 to 1973 Erik Hjorth Nielsen lived in
Brazil, where he drew and painted. For a while he was convinced that he would make that country his permanent home, but finally decided to return to Denmark
where he was appointed as a temporary lecturer of art at Blaagaard College of Education. He went on to be appointed as a permanent lecturer at Emdrupborg College of Education.
He then worked as a primary and secondary school teacher for 7-8 years. Subsequently he was appointed as an art lecturer at a college of education in Copenhagen.
He has designed various book covers and illustrated so many fairy
tales, sagas and historical themes with such skill that many of them have
become synonymous with the story. He was awarded the Ministry of Culture’s
Prize for Illustrators in 1988 and is one of the small numbers of Danish
children’s book illustrators who are published abroad.
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