Elof Risebye

[2] Born in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, from 1905 to 1913 he lived in the United States, studying at the Art Institute of Chicago (1910–12).

On returning to Denmark, he attended the school of painting at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Viggo Johansen and Julius Paulsen.

It was the beginning of the gloomy motifs of dead figures and coffins which gave him the name Painter of Grief.

[3] The painting Ved en kiste (At a Coffin, 1934) is notable for the way in which its almost black colouring depicts a man struck with feelings of guilt, showing how his sensitive hands are held over his mouth and one of his eyes.

[3] Elof Risebye's works have been widely exhibited over the years both in Denmark and abroad, most recently in Vejen Kunstmuseum in 2009.