Harald Leth (5 January 1899 in Copenhagen – 14 March 1986 in Ålsgårde) was a Danish painter whose Naturalistic work was inspired by Johannes Larsen of the Funen Painters and Oluf Høst of the Bornholm School.
[1] After first studying medicine, Leth spent a few months with Johannes Larsen at Kerteminde in 1921 before attending Harald Giersing's painting school (1921–1923).
He was also taught by Olaf Rude (1923–1924) and for a short time by P. Rostrup Boyesen.
[2] During his summers on the island of Bornholm in the 1920s, Leth became acquainted with Oluf Høst and was later influenced by the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and by Johan Lundbye and Theodor Philipsen, developing his own intensively Naturalistic style.
From 1944, when he moved to Asminderød Mark in the north of Zealand, he painted in an increasingly Colouristic style.