Hans Tegner illustrations

A collection of postcards with illustrations by Danish artist Hans Tegner (1853-1932).

Hans Christian Harald Tegner was born on 30 November 1853 in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1869 to 1878. He went on to work with drawings and watercolors. At Charlottenborg in 1882 he exhibited watercolor drawings from the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Tinder Box”.  He became a professor at the Academy in 1897.  He died in Fredensborg, N Zealand on 2 April 1932.

(Photo: N. Sievertsen, 1876)

Postcards

  • PC_Tegner0001Hans Tegner illustration is from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Children's Room." The artwork is a watercolor, which is published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense. (Unused postcard - Ref : PC_Tegner0001)
  • PC_Tegner0002Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0002), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “Storks”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0007Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0007), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “Silly Hans”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0008Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0008), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “The Jumpers”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0003Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0003), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “History of a Mother”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0004Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0004), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “Mother Elder”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0005Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0005), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “Father is always right”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0006Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0006), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “The Real Princess/The Princess and the Pea”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0009Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0009), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.
  • PC_Tegner0010Unused PC (Ref : PC_Tegner0010), showing another Hans Tegner illustration “The Little Match Seller”, published by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense.