Plaster, 1917. Size 44,3 x 60 x 39 cm. Inv. no. 158. Donated to the museum by Niels Hansen Jacobsen. A marble version of the bust is found at Ribe Art Museum.

Exhibitions

The Free Exhibition, 1918.
The Free Exhibition, 1923. Marble.

H. F. Feilberg

Henning Frederik Feilberg (1831-1921) was a local luminary in Niels Hansen Jacobsen's time. He was a theologian who for many years had been a minister first in Brørup, then in Darum. In 1892, he settled down in Askov and devoted himself to the study of folklore and dialects. His most important writing was Bidrag til en ordbog over jyske folkemål I-IV (1886-1914), a dictionary of the Jutland dialect that also contains a review of folklore and the material culture of Jutland. It is not inconceivable that Feilberg may have played a role in the life of one of Niels Hansen Jacobsen's brothers, Jacob (1856-1901), a minor writer in dialect whose first booklet was published in 1888.

At Askov Folk High School

Erik Henningsen's painting "At Askov Folk High School" from 1902 shows Feilberg listening to a lecture by the superintendent of the school, Ludvig Schrøder (1836-1908). The balding gentleman behind Feilberg is another prominent teacher at the school, the natural scientist Poul la Cour (1846-1908). The painting hangs at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød. Poul la Cour, like Ludvig Schrøder and Heinrich Nutzhorn, was among the personages memorialized at Skibelund Krat, many of its monuments designed by Niels Hansen Jacobsen.