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Robert Storm Petersen

Died in 1949

Robert Storm Petersen was born in 1882 in Valby, the son of a butcher, in a modest Copenhagen milieu. He left the Academy of Fine Arts before finishing, played supporting roles in the theatre from 1903 to 1909 and took leading roles in Ole Olsen's very first films. A newspaper cartoonist, he created the first Danish comic strip in 1913 and left some sixty thousand drawings, published mainly in the Berlingske Tidende. A painter and the author of animated films from 1920, he died in Frederiksberg in 1949.

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