Louise Ravn-Hansen

Louise Christiane Ravn-Hansen (19 July 1849, in Copenhagen – January 1909, in the Havel River, near Schwanenwerder) was a Danish landscape painter and etcher.

She lost both parents when she was eight and was adopted by her uncle, Niels Frederik Hansen, a cloth merchant.

In the summer, she made drawings of the statues and reliefs at the Royal Cast Collection [da] and, for a time, took private lessons from Jørgen Roed.

In 1877, she had her first showing of landscapes at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and became a regular participant for the rest of her life.

[3] She drowned in the Havel River on her way to Berlin; apparently the result of an accident, but the circumstances are unclear.