Knud Merrild Nielsen (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1954) was a Danish painter, sculptor and ceramicist.
[1] Merrild was born in Selling, Ødum parish, in Favrskov Municipality.
He was part of the circle around the avant-garde art magazine Klingen and was a friend of Vilhelm Lundstrøm.
In 1921 he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in many different places, including with D. H. Lawrence in Taos, New Mexico, from 1922 to 1923, and was also a friend of the American writer Henry Miller.
Merrild eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1927, where he remained until he returned to Denmark in 1954.