List of Famous people with last name Bissen

Herman Wilhelm Bissen

First Name Herman

Last Name Bissen

Born on October 13, 1798

Died on March 10, 1868 (aged 69)

Born in Germany, Schleswig-Holstein

Herman Wilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor.

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Vilhelm Bissen

First Name Vilhelm

Born on August 5, 1836

Died on April 20, 1913 (aged 76)

Born in Kingdom of Denmark, Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark

Christian Gottlieb Vilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor. He was also a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with great influence on the next generation of Danish sculptors and for a while served as its director. Bissen was trained in the Neoclassical tradition from Bertel Thorvaldsen but after a stay in Paris around 1880, he was influenced by Naturalism. With the equestrian statue of Absalon he turned to Neo-romanticism.

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