Johanne Pedersen-Dan

Johanne Agnete Theresia Pedersen-Dan née Betzonich (1860–1934) was a Danish actress, singer and sculptor.

After performing in plays and operettas in Copenhagen until 1888, she devoted the rest of her life to sculpture, frequently exhibiting her work at Charlottenborg.

She went on to perform in plays and operettas, including Offenbach's La Vie parisienne.

Pedersen-Dan and her husband went on several story trips abroad, especially to Paris and Italy but also to North Africa in 1904.

[3] A plaque on one of the gables of Hvidovre Rytterskole commemorates that Johanne Pedersen-Dan and her husband lived and worked in the building from 1912 to 1936.

Johanne Pedersen-Dan and her husband in their studio
Hvidovre Rytterskole where Pedersen-Dan lived from 1912
Memorial plaque