About Torben Thim

Background & Education

Torben Thim (born 25. May 1946) is a painter, author and rosarian. He is a member of BKF - Billedkunsternes Forbund (Danish visual artists) and Dansk forfatterforening (Danish author society)

In his younger years, he explored multiple different aspects of architecture, zoology, philosophy and art.

Post highschool, he at the school for interior architecture in Copenhagen in 1964, and animal behaviour under Konrad Lorenz at Max Planck Institute for Animal Philosophy in Germany in 1967.

From 1969 - 1972, Torben studied philosophy at Copenhagen University, and art at Calcografia Nozionale in Rome. He also studied Rembrandts original graphy in the Netherlands in 1972, and portrait art in France from 1977 - 1978, and 1995, and finally architecture in Marocco from 1973 - 1974.

The Artist

Torben Thim paints figurative portrait, expressionist landscape and abstractions, draws allegorically, photographs for and illustrates his own books.

Among the portraits is an early series depictions of prince Myschetzky - a russian born aristocrat, associated with the russian embassy in Copenhagen, who exiled to Denmark after the Russian Revolution in 1985. The series was sold to the Danish art fund, multiple different Danish municipalities, and private art collections in Germany, Schwitzerland, Italy, Sweden and Denmark.

The Author

Torben Thim as an author has roses as its central focus, with publications about the history of roses, gardens and archeticture, biographies, anthologies, essays and poems.

Among his 12 published books, in 2018 he wrote the book The History of the Rose in Denmark, a book written in english about the history of the rose in Denmark. It can be bought here.