Alfred Schmidt (artist)
{{Short description|Danish illustrator, caricaturist, and artist}}
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Alfred Michael Roedsted Schmidt (3 May 1858 – 4 April 1938) was a Danish illustrator, caricaturist and painter. He later became known primarily as a cartoonist.{{cite web|url= https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Alfred_Schmidt|title=Alfred Schmidt
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Biography
Alfred Schmidt was born at Horsens, Denmark.
He received lessons from painter and drawing master Frederik Ferdinand Helsted (1809–1875) and later studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1874-1882. His art was featured at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 1883-1886.
His ability to skew funny situations made him known and loved in broad circles.
He was best known for his satirical drawings of politicians, including a recurring joke about Prime Minister J.C. Christensen being accompanied by a fox as illustration of this politician's cunning. He was main editor and contributor to the satirical magazine Klods-Hans (1899-1926). From 1880 he drew for Punch, Fliegende Blätte from 1884 and from 1889 for Blæksprutten.
He also illustrated books such as Christian Winther's picture book Flugten til Amerika (1900) and the later editions of Molbo story (molbohistorier).{{cite web|url= https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/molbohistorier|title=molbohistorier|website= Den Store Danske|access-date=January 1, 2021}}{{cite web|url= https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Flugten_til_Amerika|title= Flugten til Amerika|website= Den Store Danske|access-date=1 January 2021}}
He died at Hellerup in Gentofte and was buried at Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen.
Gallery
File:Flugten til Amerika - forsideillustration.png|Illustration for Flugten til Amerika
File:Flugten til Amerika 2.jpg|Illustration in Flugten til Amerika
File:Flugten til Amerika 6.jpg|Illustration in Flugten til Amerika
File:Opera singer by Alfred Schmidt.jpg|Caricature of an opera singer
File:Drawing by Alfred Schmidt 1887.jpg|Illustration to a The Stork in the Corn, a Molbo story
File:Saltholm 1904 by Alfred Schmidt.jpg|Caricature from Blæksprutten featuring fortified Saltholm (1904)
File:Klods-Hans foto (cropped).jpg|Racist cartoon for Klods-Hans (1917)
File:Blæksprutten 1917 by Alfred Schmidt.jpg|"A Danish Worker's and Soldiers' Council", Blæksprutten (1917)
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