Hans Michelsen
1789–1859 (age 70)
Biography
Born in 1789, Hans Michelsen dedicated himself to sculpture, studying under leading Danish and Norwegian masters and shaping elegant portrait busts and sacred figures for the expanding public spaces of his time.
Across decades he brought a calm neoclassical grace to commemorative monuments and ecclesiastical commissions, leaving works that continue to speak to visitors of Vår Frelsers gravlund with a quiet dignity.