Background
Valdemar Koch was born in Sønder Kirkeby on the island of Falster.
Valdemar Koch was born in Sønder Kirkeby on the island of Falster.
V. Nielsens drawing school and was then admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from where he graduated in 1879.
He designed a number of churches in Copenhagen. In 1871 he joined Chr. Koch initially worked as a draughtsman for Ludvig Fenger and Hermann Baagøe Storck.
He participated independently in the competition for the new Copenhagen City Hall which was held in early 1889.
In 1896 he also surveyed the limestone churches in the area around Grenå. Koch also designed a memorial cross to Svend Magnussens at Grathe Heath in Jutland (1892) and another one over Knud Lavards at Haraldsted just north of Ringsted on central Zealand.
He is buried at Vestre Cemetery.
Instead he entered local politics in Copenhagen, where he was a member of the City Council from 1891 to 1897., and as an architect specialised in the design of churches.