Lauritz andersen ring biography of albert

Lauritz Andersen Ring was born in the village of Ring in South Zealand, Denmark on 15th August 1854. He was to become one of the finest Danish painters of his generation, a golden generation that established Danish painting in the eyes of the world, numbering amongst his contemporaries his friend Harmmershoi (1864-1916), Holsoe (1863-1935), Ilsted (1861-1933) and Monsted (1859-1941).

Ring was apprenticed as a painter 1868-72 before graduating from the Copenhagen Technical School in 1874 and subsequently enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Ring was to become a painter who portrayed above all peasant life in rural Denmark, the subject for which he was to become renowned. He made his debut at Charlottenborg in 1882 and continued to exhibit there until 1928. Like many of his contemporaries, Ring travelled widely, between 1893 and 1895 he embarked on a tour of Europe visiting Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and Ital