Flags of the World Series: Denmark

Denmark is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterized by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2, land area of 42,394 km2, and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2, and a population of 5.8 million.

Stamps on postcard:
Winter Tales, issued on 26.10.2010.
Black Grouse (from set Wild animals), issued on 20.10.1994.
Save the Child, issued on 2.1.2014.
Wavy Lines & Hearts definitive stamp, issued on 2.1.2019.
Wavy Lines definitive stamp, issued on 28.4.2010.


Thank you, Rune!

Denmark: Jens Lund

This is drawing by Jens Lund, Danish painter and illustrator. Born in Copenhagen, he was the son of the master carpenter Jens Gustav Lund who ran a successful furniture business. After first studying law and forestry, he turned to art becoming a student of J. Jensen Egebjerg and Axel Hou. In 1896, he went to Paris where he attended the Académie Julian, studying under Tony Robert-Fleury.In Paris he associated with the Danish Symbolists Rudolph Tegner, Johannes Holbek and Niels Hansen Jacobsen who inspired him to espouse Symbolism and Art Nouveau. He began to create simple pen-and-ink drawings depicting ornamental sketches and landscapes, considered to be forerunners of Surrealism.

Stamp is Coat of Arms, issued on 20.10.2010.

Thank you Rasa.

Denmark: Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

My first postcard from Denmark!

Hip, Hip, Hurrah! is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1888 by Norwegian-Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer. The work shows various members of what Krøyer referred to as the "guild" of Skagen Painters: a group of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish artists who formed a loose community in Skagen at the northern tip of Jutland in the 1880s and early 1890s.

Stamps:

Stamp: Hans J. Wegner's three-legged Shell Chair
Series: Danish designed furniture
Issued on: 2014-03-15

Stamp: Order of the Elephant
Series: Danish Decorations
Issued on: 2015-03-14

Stamp: Wavy Lines - Self Adhesive
Issued on: 2010-04-28

Thank You Rita!