Background
The son of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Emma Sophie Amalia Zinn, Hartmann was born in Copenhagen.
The son of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Emma Sophie Amalia Zinn, Hartmann was born in Copenhagen.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
He worked mainly with bronze rather than the more common marble. While in Rome in 1863, he created a colossal statue of Alexandros. In the 1870s, he joined the Johannes Group in connection with Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen.
Foreign a time, he was cultural correspondent for Nationaltidende.