Painting

Oil painting depicting Reverend Mogens Strunge, who was a parish priest at Tårnby Church 1927-1962. The pastor is painted from the front wearing a priest dress with three orders on his chest. The work has belonged to the family and was performed by Count Preben Knuth in 1941 in Tårnby Cemetery. About Mogens Strunge (from the Blue Book 1957): provst, R.M.T.Kha. p.p; b. 29/1 1892 at Rosengaarden in Toustrup near Skanderborg; son of farm owner, parishioner Rasmus Strunge (died 1901) and wife, cookbook author Mariane f. Sørensen (died 1928); married (15/7 1923) with dentist Elise Magdalene S. (decorated with M.T.Kha.), f. in Tystrup near Sorø, daughter of farm owner, cattle farmer N C Olsen (died 1941) and wife Sofie Amalie f. Sørensen (died 1933). Student (Viborg) 1911; cand. Theol. 1918; study at the Universities of Oslo and Uppsala 1916; chaplain in Precast Skibinge and municipal teacher in Priest Island 1921-22; parish priest in Slots-bjærgby-Sludstrup 1922-27; parishioner in Lundforlund-Gerlev 1924-27; parish priest in Tårnby on Amager 1927; plus provst for Sokkelund herreds vestre provsti 1952. Chairman of the Amager parish council convention from 1935; vice-president of the Amager Tourist Association from 1936; honorary member of the Danish-Lithuanian Association 1939 and of the Polish Association 1939; organizing president of the Amager Rotary Club 1940; chairman of Tårnby parish councils 1934-36 and 1944-49. Has written: Churches and Priest Guards in GI. Roskilde and Holbæk Counties (1933); An Amager Wedding in 1748 (1935); Taarnby Varign (1935); Iron King Amagerrim 1693 (1936); De Thura and his Amager Book 1758 (1936); Absalon and Amager (1936); Carl the Danish (1937); Lithuanian Studies (1938); About Flanders and Denmark’s Farmers (1938); The Danish Land in the Light of the Nude (1939); Old and New About Amager (1939); The Dutch under the Dances Foreign. Orders: Li.G.4; N.O.N.5; Po.r.K.3; S.V.31st Address: Tårnby rectory, Englandsvej 330, 2770 Kastrup.