1931 in Denmark

Events from the year 1931 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning

Events

• 31 August – Karen Blixen returns to Denmark after living 28 years in Kenya, settling at her native Rungstedlund.^[1]

The arts

Music

• 14 August – Premiere performance of Carl Nielsen's Commotio, the composer's last major work, in Aarhus Cathedral.

Deaths

• 16 January – Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, systematic botanist, professor in botany at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University from 1918, professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1923 (born 1873)
• 18 February – Peter Elfelt, photographer (born 1866)
• 4 May – Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader (born 1869)
• 8 August – Einar Hein, landscape painter associated with the "Skagen Painters" (born 1875)
• 3 December – Carl Nielsen, composer (born 1865)
• 23 December – Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld, engineer (born 1866)

References

See also