Hans Harder
Johannes Georg Smith Harder, known as Hans Harder was a Danish painter and drawing master. He was known especially as a painter of landscapes.Biography
Harder was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1822, he became a drawing teacher at the Sorø Academy. With funding from the Fonden ad usus publicos, he conducted a study trip to Munich, Italy and Austria during 1825-29. In 1830, he was unanimously elected as a member of the Art Academy. He remained a drawing teacher at Sorø Academy for most of his life, resigning in 1862. He died during 1873 in Sorø.
