40 Danish painters

Aage Bertelsen was a Danish painter. He was a member of the Denmark Expedition to North-East Greenland. He has also worked for Kähler Keramik in Næstved.

Carl Henrik Bøgh was a Danish painter; best known for his scenes with animals.

Gérard Pierre Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette, often referred to as Antoine de la Calmette, was a Danish County Governor, geheimrat, and landowner. He is, however, remembered above all as an artist and landscape architect, contributing to Danish Romanticism, especially in the design of Liselund on the island of Møn with its English garden, thatched summer residence and distributed buildings in various styles.

Hans Ole Brasen was a Danish painter. He won the Eckersberg Medal in 1894.

Heinrich Christian August Buntzen was a Danish landscape painter.

Carl Christian Lund was the leading Danish theatrical painter of his time.

Peter Cramer was a Danish painter who specialized in theatrical scenery and decorative work.

Maja Lisa Engelhardt is a Danish painter whose works are inspired by the landscapes of north-western Zealand where she was brought up. She now lives in Paris with her husband Peter Brandes who is also a painter. She has decorated several central buildings in Copenhagen and, more recently, has designed works for Danish churches.

Achton Friis was a Danish illustrator, painter and writer. He participated in the Denmark Expedition to Northeast Greenland in 1906–1908, creating a large number of works in the process, both landscape paintings and portraits, as well as a written account which was published in 1909. He later published several comprehensive and richly illustrated works with descriptions of the nature and cultural history of different parts of Denmark. In addition, he designed decorative works for the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain manufacturer.

Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt, also called Louis Gurlitt, was a Danish-German painter of landscapes. His brother was the composer Cornelius Gurlitt, and his son was the architect and art historian also called Cornelius Gurlitt.

Lars H.U.G. is a Danish musician and painter. He has produced several critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist, and has performed with the group Kliché.

Niels Christian Hansen was a Danish portrait and genre painter; brother of the pioneering photographer Georg Emil Hansen.

Emmerik Lucian Høegh-Guldberg was a Danish painter who was born in Aarhus to Julius Høegh-Guldberg, a military officer and politician, and his wife Margrethe Pallene Hahn. His half-brother was the politician Christopher Julius Høgh-Guldberg and his grandfather was Ove Høegh-Guldberg. Høegh-Guldberg was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog in 1853 and was made a Knight of the Dannebrog in 1874. ARoS Art Museum contains one painting of Emmerik Høegh-Guldberg painted by his friend Christen Købke.

Christian Horneman was a Danish miniature and pastels painter, mainly known for portraits. He was the father of the composer Emil Horneman and grandfather of C. F. E. Horneman, also a composer.

Jens Jørgen Jensen-Egeberg was a Danish painter. His works include portraits, landscapes and genre scenes. He also worked in pastels.

Bodil Marie Kaalund-Jørgensen (1930–2016) was an award-winning Danish painter, textile artist and writer, who is remembered above all for her artwork in Danish churches and for her Bible illustrations. She was also a major contributor to the recognition of Greenland's cultural heritage, thanks in part to her Grønlands Kunst, published in English in 1983 as The Art of Greenland.

Frans Kannik was educated in Serigraph in 1968. He also studied calligraphy in Oslo between 1971–1974. As an artist, he was generally self-educated. He was a multifaceted artist that expressed in a wide range of paintings, graphics, installation art, performance arts and sculptures.

Benoît Le Coffre was a Danish painter of French descent. He became King Frederick IV's Court Painter in 1700 and is considered the earliest representative of light Rococo painting in Denmark.

Melchior Lorck was a renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century, to this day a unique source. He was also the first Danish artist of whom a substantial biography is reconstructable and a substantial body of artworks is attributable.

Carl Johan Wilhelm Madsen, commonly known as Karl Madsen, was a Danish painter and art historian with close connections to the Skagen Painters.

Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter living in Denmark, was born at sea during a voyage between Stockholm and Livland, Sweden.

Claus Møinichen or Claus á Møinichen was a Danish painter. He was the son of the Copenhagen surgeon Sixtus Møinichen (1629–1666) and his wife Anna Thiesens.

Jens Peter Møller was a Danish painter.

Johan Nissen is a Danish new media artist]] specializing in digital art.

Emil Wilhelm Normann was a Danish painter and naval officer.

Odsherred Painters is a term applied to Danish artists from various periods with connections to Odsherred in the northwest of Zealand, Denmark. Some were born there while others settled in the area or painted there. While the term includes painters from the 19th century such as Johan Thomas Lundbye, Vilhelm Kyhn and Vilhelm Melbye, it is applied more specifically to the painters who created landscapes from 1930 to 1970 and who formed an artists' colony. They include Karl Bovin, Kaj Ejstrup, Viggo Rørup, Ellen Krause, Lauritz Hartz, Povl Christensen, Victor Brockdorff and Sigurd Swane.

Dagmar Olrik (1860–1932) was a Danish painter and tapestry artist. She is remembered for her weaving and tapestry work, in particular for decorating a room in Copenhagen's City Hall with tapestries based on cartoons of Nordic mythology created by Lorenz Frølich. For 18 years, she headed a group of tapestry artists in the City Hall's weaving room where the work was completed. She also restored tapestries for several Danish museums and stately homes.

Erik Ortvad was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings.. He also created several hundred satiric drawings about the modern way of life under the pseudonym Enrico.

Erik Pauelsen was a Danish painter. He is most notable for his landscapes and was also a popular portraitist. However, he did not experience the same level of success as Jens Juel and Nicolai Abildgaard, his contemporaries, and in 1790 he committed suicide.

Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen was a Danish painter and illustrator who is above all remembered for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. He was the first artist to illustrate Andersen's works. His drawings were converted into wood prints and used in the Danish and German editions.

Lars Physant lives and works in Barcelona since 1994, is a Danish painter whose conceptual expression has its roots in naturalism and realism. Amongst his earliest influences are C.W. Eckersberg, Christen Købke, J.Th. Lundbye, Wilhelm Hammershøi, Vermeer van Delft, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. He is especially known for his royal portraits and his concept of Multiversal Realism expressed on relief structures of wood.

Nadia Plesner is a Danish/Dutch painter who works and lives in the Netherlands. Plesner is working on issues that lie between the editorial and advertising and often with political undertones. She trained at the Graphic Arts Institute, Copenhagen (Denmark) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Janus (Ianus) Laurentius Jørgensen Ridter was a Danish painter and illustrator. He is remembered above all for his illustrations of Danish industrial establishments in the 1880s and his topographical watercolours and drawings of Copenhagen in the 1890s and 1900s.

Naja Salto (1945–2016) was a Danish painter and textile artist who is remembered for her rich, brightly coloured tapestries, many depicting scenes of the sea and the sky.

Anna Marie Louise Sandholt (1872–1942) was a Danish painter and ceramist who practised outdoor painting at a time when it was unusual for women to do so. Before studying painting, she had been active as an embroidery teacher. As a ceramist, she created porcelain figures for Bing & Grøndahl. Many of her landscapes depicted trees, with which she developed a special relationship after the First World War.

The Skagen Painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village of Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century. Skagen was a summer destination whose scenic nature, local milieu and social community attracted northern artists to paint en plein air, emulating the French Impressionists—though members of the Skagen colony were also influenced by Realist movements such as the Barbizon school. They broke away from the rather rigid traditions of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, espousing the latest trends that they had learned in Paris. Among the group were Anna and Michael Ancher, Peder Severin Krøyer, Holger Drachmann, Karl Madsen, Laurits Tuxen, Marie Krøyer, Carl Locher, Viggo Johansen and Thorvald Niss from Denmark, Oscar Björck and Johan Krouthén from Sweden, and Christian Krohg and Eilif Peterssen from Norway. The group gathered together regularly at the Brøndums Inn.

Sergei Sviatchenko is a collage artist from Ukraine. He has lived in Denmark since the 1990s. Sviatchenko graduated from Kharkov School of Architecture in Kharkov in 1975, and in 1986 he studied a Ph. D. at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kiev.

Anne Marie Frederikke Telmányi née Nielsen (1893–1983) was a Danish painter and writer. In addition to landscapes and mythological subjects, she is remembered in particular for her portraits of important figures of the times. Her writings include a biography of her mother, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who was also an artist. Her father was the composer Carl Nielsen and husband was the Hungarian violinist Emil Telmányi.

Thomas Warming is a Danish illustrator, painter, and author.

Carl Christian Ferdinand Wentorf was a Danish painter. His works included genre pieces and portraits. He won the Royal Danish Art Academy's Annual Medal in 1901.