Kristen Feilberg, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Kristen Feilberg

Danish photographer

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1839

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1919

Profession: photographer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg (1839–1919) was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark.
From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to Sumatra, Singapore, and Penang.
In 1867, he exhibited photos at the Paris World Exposition and around 1870 he joined an expedition to the Batak lands of North Sumatra with the Dutch explorer C.
de Haan from which he returned with 45 successful "photogrammes".