Kristen Feilberg

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1839 – 1919

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Who was Kristen Feilberg?

Kristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark. From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to Sumatra, Singapore, and Penang. In 1867, he exhibited photos at the Paris World Exposition and around 1870 he joined an expedition to the Batak lands of East Sumatra with the Dutch explorer C. de Haan from which he returned with 45 successful "photogrammes".

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Born
Aug 26, 1839
Denmark
Died
1919

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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