Ebba Holm

Ebba Regitze Ellida Olga Holm (1889–1967) was a Danish painter and engraver who is remembered in particular for her illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy.

She fostered close contacts with Italy, contributing to the Italian engraving journal Xilografia in the mid-1920s.

[1][2] Born on 29 May 1889 in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Ebba Regitze Ellida Olga Holm was the daughter of the merchant Carl Gustav Adolf Holm (1865–1940) and Olga Marie Jensen (1867–1932).

[3] Her works include a portrait of her sister (1914) and De tre Generationer (1918).

She executed 107 relief prints (woodcuts and linoleum cuts) between 1923 and 1928, reproductions of which were included in the Danish translation of the Divine Comedy in 1929.