Erik Pauelsen (1749 – 1790)

• Was a Danish painter.
• Erik Pauelsen was born in Østerballe Parish in Himmerland.
• Im Copenhagen he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1770 to 1777.
• He won the large gold medal in 1777 together with the Academy's travel scholarship.
• He travelled to Rome by way of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Paris and visited Dresden and Berlin on his way back.
• During his travels he became a member of several foreign art academies and was granted the title of professor in Düsseldorf. 

• After his return to Denmark, he became a member of the art academy.

• From 1785 to 1786 he decorated a room in Frédéric de Coninck's mansion on Bredgade, now known as Moltke's Mansion after a later owner.

• 1788 he travelled to Norway and brought back a series of landscape paintings acquired by the royal painting collections.

• However, he suffered from his feeling belittled and defeated by his peers and in 1790 he committed suicide by jumping out of a window in his home.

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