Georg Haas (engraver)

This brought the right to go abroad as the Academy "boarder", but travel grants seemed slow in coming and were both few and small, for Haas' case only 100 Rdl.

Although one in Paris would not get far with this insignificant sum, it gave Haas, however, enough to get on the road to France's capital, where he arrived and was able to study under Nicolas de Launays and Johan Frederik Clemens.

After in 1781 to have had his scarce scholarship increased and prolonged studied Haas eagerly went ahead and completed in 1782 a beautiful wall Diomedes eaten up by his own horses.

In addition, there was no shortage of engravers in Denmark, and there were more artists than Haas (Clemens, Johan Martin Preisler) .

Haas searched in vain for a professorship at the model school, and unsuccessfully for free residence at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, nothing would initially succeed him.