Malthe Engelsted

Malthe Odin Engelsted (born Malta Odin on 8 August 1852 in Nivågård, Sjælland - 21 December 1930 in Faxe Ladeplads) was a Danish M.A. and painter.

His father, Niels Engelsted [da] was a military officer. In 1870, having studied theology for 3 years, he began attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied etching from 1873 to 1879. His first showing was at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1880.^[1]

He was awarded the Neuhausenske Prize [da] in 1883. Combining his own resources with a scholarship from the academy, he was able to make study tours to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Greece; spending most of the years 1887–1889 in travelling.^[2]

Much of his work is infused with humor, exemplified by Domino Players (1881) and L’hombre (1887), but he also created canvases of a more serious, psychological nature, such as Sara awakens Isaac for his departure to Mount Moriah (1884) or Christ and Nicodemus (1887).

He is buried in the cemetery at Faxe Church.

• H.R. Baumann, biography, in the first version of the DBL, published by CF Bricka, Volume 4, p. 521, Penguin Books, 1887–1905.
• A translation of the corresponding article in the Danish Wikipedia.

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