Nielsine Petersen
Nielsine Petersen was a Danish sculptor.Biography
Nielsine Caroline Petersen was born at Nyrup in the parish Højby on the island of Zealand, Denmark. She was the daughter of Mads Petersen and Kirstine born Madsen. She came to Copenhagen and visited Vilhelm Kyhn's drawing school, after which she became a student of August Saabye. She exhibited for the first time at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1880 and won the Neuhausens Prize in 1883. She then studied in Paris. She was awarded the Ingenio et arti medal in 1908.
She is remembered in particular for her bronze statue of Hamlet and that of a child fishing crabs.
