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Valdemar Ingemann
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<h2 id="early-life-and-career">Early life and career</h2> <p>Valdemar Ingemann was born in <a href="/facts/Copenhagen/58Tl28IX">Copenhagen</a>, the son of merchant and perfume manufacturer Søren Edvard Joachim Ingemann, nephew of the author <a href="/facts/Bernhard_Severin_Ingemann/5mRvy0ll">Bernhard Severin Ingemann</a>, and Mariane Aurelia Laurentine née Lauritzen. He completed a mason's apprenticeship and was prior to that, in October 1856, admitted to the <a href="/facts/Royal_Danish_Academy_of_Fine_Arts/PW3Xwjlh">Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts</a> where he won the large silver medal (1863) before graduating in 1866.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Ingemann worked as a draughtsman for <a href="/facts/Harald_Conrad_Stilling/vgm3KC28">Harald Conrad Stilling</a> and <a href="/facts/Johan_Henrik_Nebelong/CCK0hPPR">Johan Henrik Nebelong</a> before setting up his own practice. He taught at the Technical Society's School from 1877 to 1900, where one of his students was Vilhelm Fischer, himself later an accomplished architect at the turn of the century. Ingemann also served on the <a href="/facts/Copenhagen_City_Council/bRXHe4g6">Copenhagen City Council</a> from 1894 to 1900.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="selected-works">Selected works</h2> <ul><li>Chapel, <a href="/facts/Assistens_Cemetery_(Copenhagen)/WTXUCj74">Assistens Cemetery</a>, Copenhagen (1867–1868)</li> <li>Store Søvang, <a href="/facts/K%C3%B8ge/8X52LleT">Køge</a> (1874)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/N._Zahle%27s_School/WR1VtMD9">Østifternes Kreditforening</a>,</i>, <a href="/facts/N%C3%B8rre_Voldgade/Hu0HjM6p">Nørre Voldgade</a>, Copenhagen (1875)</li> <li>Luthersk Mission, <a href="/facts/Nansensgade/4gyI5sz2">Nansensgade</a>, Copenhagen (1876)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Aluminia/0WDkKGj6">Aluminia</a> later also <a href="/facts/Royal_Copenhagen/lcRTTVMW">Royal Copenhagen</a>, now <a href="/facts/Porcel%C3%A6nshaven/RXg6PyGa">Porcelænshaven</a>, <a href="/facts/Smallegade/k3Dcv6Rm">Smallegade</a>, Copenhagen (1882)</li> <li>Købmagergade 50, <a href="/facts/K%C3%B8bmagergade/qIVQdLUA">Købmagergade</a>, Copenhagen (1884)</li> <li>Frederiksholms Kanal 4 (for <i><a href="/facts/Kunstforeningen/lADod44C">Kunstforeningen</a></i>), <a href="/facts/Frederiksholms_Kanal/tPGDkJJC">Frederiksholms Kanal</a>, Copenhagen (1886)</li> <li>Købmagergade 44, <a href="/facts/K%C3%B8bmagergade/qIVQdLUA">Købmagergade</a>, Copenhagen (1888)</li> <li>Frederiksborggade 1 (corner of <a href="/facts/Kultorvet/sWKa9vey">Kultorvet</a>), Copenhagen (1895, spire dismantled)</li> <li>Krabbesholm (rebuilding), Gershøj (1905)</li></ul> <h3>In collaboration with Bernhard Ingemann</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/S._Seidelin/wbdx0qB6">S. Seidelin Building</a> (now <a href="/facts/Pressens_Hus/h1Lgx8Ge">Pressens Hus</a>),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Skindergade/pauoDsMc">Skindergade</a>, Copenhagen (1901)</li> <li>Købmandsskolen og Foreningen til Unge Handelsmænds Uddannelse, Fiolstræde 44, Copenhagen (1901–1902)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Lyngby_S%C3%B8ndre_M%C3%B8lle/Q3q6L02K">Lyngby Søndre Mølle</a>, Kongens Lyngby (1903)</li> <li>County hospital, <a href="/facts/Nyk%C3%B8bing_Sj%C3%A6lland/wtkRDRYv">Nykøbing Sjælland</a> (1911)</li> <li>Manufakturhandlerforeningens Stiftelse, <a href="/facts/Bragesgade/1CLvYAxo">Bragesgade</a> 26 B, Copenhagen (1909–1910)</li> <li><a href="/facts/N%C3%B8rregade/8RK3oBV3">Nørregade</a> 4-6, Copenhagen (1907)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Skindergade/pauoDsMc">Skindergade</a> 7, Copenhagen</li> <li>Villa Baldersbæk, <a href="/facts/Vejen_Municipality/yp7IUmzY">Vejen Municipality</a> (1910)</li></ul> <h2 id="image-gallery">Image gallery</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valdemar Ingemann. <ul><li><a href="https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisKunstner.do?kunstnerId=7470">Valdemar Ingemann</a> on <a href="/facts/Kunstindeks_Danmark/qEGQspxq">Kunstindeks Danmark</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Valdemar Ingemann" (in Danish). Gyldendal. Retrieved 2013-11-11. <a href="http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Arkitektur/Arkitekt/Valdemar_Ingemann" target="_blank">http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Arkitektur/Arkitekt/Valdemar_Ingemann</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Borgerrepræsentanter: I". Københavns Biblioteker (in Danish). 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2021-12-02. <a href="https://bibliotek.kk.dk/raadhusbibliotekets-online-resurser/borgerrepraesentationen/medlemmer-br/repraesentanter" target="_blank">https://bibliotek.kk.dk/raadhusbibliotekets-online-resurser/borgerrepraesentationen/medlemmer-br/repraesentanter</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Niels Hemmingsensgade 34-36/Skindergade 5-7" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Archived from the original on 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2013-08-21. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131018050305/http://www.indenforvoldene.dk/niels%20hemmingsensgade%2034-36%20-%20skindergade%205-7.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20131018050305/http://www.indenforvoldene.dk/niels%20hemmingsensgade%2034-36%20-%20skindergade%205-7.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>