#agnes smidt

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Agnes Smidt (Oct. 4, 1874 - 1952) was a Danish artist and public speaker, much engaged in the cause of re-unification of Denmark and Northern Schleswig. She belonged to the Danish minority south of the pre-1920 border and was educated at the Askov folk high-school in the Grundtvig principles of democracy and participatory education.

As an artist she studied at the Arts and Crafts School for Women in Copenhagen, and after that with N.V. Dorph. Back in Southern Jutland she mainly practices as a public lecturer on Danish culture and history, but also took many commissions as a portrait painter.

Above: Self-Portrait, 1920s - oil on canvas (Privately owned)

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