Ole Søndergaard

Ole Laurits Olsen Søndergaard (24 May 1876 – 10 November 1958) was a Danish landscape painter.

Born in Allerslev near Lejre in northwestern Zealand, Søndergaard studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1900.

[2] Søndergaard was a versatile artist, remembered for his portraits and landscapes of the countryside around Roskilde.

His paintings reveal his association with his friend L.A. Ring, especially his winter scenes with stooping figures shovelling snow.

On assignments for the National Museum of Denmark, he participated in the restoration of frescos in the churches of Lyngby, Ballerup, Måløv, Vallensved and Vallensbæk, as well as the cathedrals of Aarhus and Roskilde.

Ole Søndergaard's altarpiece in the Church of Our Saviour, Esbjerg
Ole Søndergaard's ceiling painting in the apse vault of Holbæk's Sankt Nikolai Church