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Niels Frederik Schiottz-Jensen
(1855-1941)
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Niels Frederik Schiottz-Jensen (1855-1941) a listed Danish artist was initially apprenticed to a merchant but was admitted to The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen) in 1873 and took his exam from there in 1879. In 1882-83 he was further educated at The Acad. Colarossi in Paris.

In appreciation of his talent and work he won The Academy Award twice (in 1886 and 1895) and received The Annual Medal 1. Class in 1895. He made several study tours. Apart from the above-mentioned stay in Paris in 1882-83 he visited Italy in 1886 and made a larger tour to Italy and Tunisia (North Africa) in 1891. Finally, in 1911, he made a tour to Rome, Italy.

He debuted at the esteemed Charlottenborg Exhibitions (Copenhagen) in 1880 and exhibited there continuously henceforth. He was also a frequent exhibitor on other prominent Danish exhibitions, e.g. at the November 18, Artist Society Exhibitions and The Artist' Fall Exhibitions, both in Copenhagen.

Initially Schiöttz-Jensen impressed with his highly realistic street life paintings but later turned to more naturalistic motifs especially his Italian paintings are based on the romantic ideas of the 19th century.