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Hans Scherfig

Died in 1979

Hans Scherfig was born in Copenhagen in 1905. After taking his school-leaving examination in 1924 at the Metropolitanskolen lycée, he studied zoology for a time, then Danish and German, without sitting an examination, and turned to painting as a self-taught artist. He travelled in Austria, Yugoslavia, the United States and France, joined the Danish Communist Party in 1932, of which he remained a member all his life, and was arrested in June 1941 under the German occupation. A painter of naive jungles as much as a writer, he died in Hillerød in 1979.

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