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Robert Storm Petersen

Also known as: Robert Storm Petersen; primary name: Petersen, Robert Storm
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; author/poet; Danish; Male
Life dates: 1882-1949
Biography: Cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P. Worked as a free-lance painter, illustrator and cabaret entertainer. Already during World War I he was a well-known artist, and from about 1920 onward he was almost a national "institution" as a humorist, partly because of his versatile interests. His first comic strip was printed in 1906, in the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet. He was for many years connected to the Copenhagen newspaper Berlingske Tidende as a comic writer and cartoonist. As an author, he wrote many short stories and tales, often parodies on detective stories or melodramas, small snap-shots from the Copenhagen lower middle class milieu, absurd and surrealistic tales. Special kinds of tales were the monologues 'voiced' by his own dog, Vor ven Grog (1926–1935), in which he let the dog reflect on life, death and daily life, sometimes with a light touch of sadness and pity within the humour.

Title: Helhesten |
Museum number: 2021,7015.2.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert Storm PetersenPrint made by:Vilhelm Lundstrøm