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Anders Peter Christian Aigens
(1870-1940)
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A well listed Danish artist, studied under P.S. Kroeyer and Lauritz Tuxen at Kunstnernes Studieskole (The Artists' Study School founded by a group of the "Skagenmalere" which included: P.S. Kroyer, Lauritz Tuxen, Michael Ancher and other notable artists of the period).

He travelled to Switzerland and the Faroe Islands and, in his younger years stayed at Skagen during the summer. He mainly painted portraits and figures, but he also did some interiors and landscapes.

Aigens was among a group (including Poul Friis Nybo 1869-1929) that became famous for their painted lamplight interiors with and without people, but he also found his motifs among common subjects and genre scenes of people at their work and every day settings.

He exhibited at "Kunstnernes Efteraarsudstilling" (The Autumn Exhibition of the Artists), Charlottenborg and at the Young Artist's exhibition.

A Christian Aigens painting "Interior with young girls around a paraffin lamp" sold for $3,600 at auction in September 1998.