Knud Merrild
Knud Merrild Nielsen (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1954) was a Danish painter, sculptor and ceramicist. Life. Merrild was born in Selling, Ødum parish, in Favrskov Municipality. He worked in ceramics with the potter G. A. Eifrig at the Københavns Lervarefabrik in Valby. He was part of the circle around the avant-garde art magazine "Klingen" and was a friend of Vilhelm Lundstrøm. In 1921 he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in many different places, including with D.H. Lawrence in Taos, New Mexico, from 1922 to 1923, and was also a friend of the American  writer Henry Miller. He later wrote about both of them. Merrild eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1927, where he remained until he returned to Denmark in 1954. He died in Copenhagen in the same year. He was also a friend of the American writer Henry Miller. He submitted work for the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.