Mogens Ballin

Mogens Ballin (20 March 1871, Copenhagen – 27 January 1914, Hellerup) was a Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven.

At a celebration for Gauguin in March 1891, he met the Dutch painter Jan Verkade who had a marked influence on the development of his career.

Later that year, he traveled to Italy where became a Roman Catholic, being baptized in Fiesole near Florence in January 1893.

In 1899, he opened a workshop for metalwork together with Siegfried Wagner, finding inspiration from Willumsen and contributing to the Danish version of Jugentstil, in particular working with tin and silver and producing lamps and jewelry.

[1][2] Although Ballin did not produce many paintings, his work clearly played a role in developing the trends of the Nabi artists with his use of pure color, blue background tones, false perspective, and the high horizons in his landscapes.