Biography
Nicolai Hammer (b. Copenhagen, Denmark 1887 - d. Copenhagen 1970) studied at The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1907-08 and again 1911-12; at The Academy in Dresden 1908-10 and in 1924 at Central School of Arts and Crafts under W.P. Robins (1882-1959). Hammer returned to London and Paris in 1929, Germany in 1935, Paris and Holland in 1936 and Venice in 1951 and 1954. Hammer is known mostly as an etcher, his images drawing heavily on his travels and on the Danish architecture, many printed in colour. The British influence of Robins and Whistler is evident in the composition of many of his early works. Hammer exhibited extensively throughout Scandinavia and Europe.
