We have reached the 130th edition of "Art and Writing", and for this one the guest is Laurits Andersen Ring:

This outstanding artist was born on August 15, 1854 in Ring, a town located in the south of Zealand (Denmark).

Since he was a child he had an inclination towards drawing. In 1873 he decided to study painting at private institutes in Copenhagen.

In 1875 he enrolled in the Danish Academy of Arts. He did not feel comfortable in this institution, since he had serious differences with respect to the methodology used there to teach.

Laurits Andersen had a painter friend named Hans Andersen, with whom he was frequently confused. This motivated them to decide in 1881, both of them to change their surnames, which were replaced by the names of their towns to differentiate themselves from each other. From this moment on, the painter began to sign his works as L.A. Ring; and his friend as H.A. Brendekilde.

L.A. Ring was a man sensitive to the social injustices of the poor, and in many of his paintings he addressed the subject of poverty and labor exploitation.

In 1896 he married Sigrid Kähler, who became the model for some of his works. When they married, she was 21 years old; he was 42. The couple had three children.

In 1923, the artist's wife fell ill with tuberculosis and died on May 9 of that year. By then she was 49 years old.

L.A. Ring belonged to the movements: Social Realism and Symbolism. He died on September 10, 1933, at the age of 79, in Denmark.

Here are three of his works so that you can choose the one you like the most to write about. The first is titled The Railway Guard (1884), the second, Laborers (1897) and the third The Old Wife and Death (1887).

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