page_title: Achton Friis
section_title: Music career
hierarchical_section_title: Achton Friis / Music career
caption_attribution_description: English: Achton Friis Trio
context_page_description: Achton Friis was a Danish illustrator, painter and writer. He participated in the Denmark Expedition to Northeast Greenland in 1906–1908, creating a large number of works in the process, both landscape paintings and portraits, as well as a written account which was published in 1909. He later published several comprehensive and richly illustrated works with descriptions of the nature and cultural history of different parts of Denmark. In addition, he designed decorative works for the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain manufacturer.
  He is buried at Vestre Cemetery in Copenhagen. His son, Claus Achton Friis, was also a painter and graphic artist.
context_section_description: Friis also played the mandolin and mandola. His threesome, the Achton Friis Trio, was completed by Johan Tolstrup on mandolin and by Frederik Birket-Smith on theorbo.
caption: The Achton Friis Trio
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