Jens Birkholm

Although his only formal training was an apprenticeship with an obscure local artist, he drew and painted together with them in his spare time and absorbed the influence of Kristian Zahrtmann, who was their teacher in Copenhagen.

[3] While in Germany, he came in contact with the Social Democrats and, in 1892, settled in Berlin, where he created paintings of poor people in times of distress, some of them done in homeless shelters.

In 1902, he contracted tuberculosis and returned to his home town where he participated in creating the Faaborg Museum [da].

[3] Under the influence of the Funen Painters, his style changed from social realism to impressionism and he shifted to painting mainly landscapes.

[3] From 1904 to 1912, he held annual exhibitions in Faaborg and made several trips abroad, including Italy (1905) and Tunisia (1911).