The Visionary Weight of Knud Agger To look at the work of Knud Agger is to confront a specific, heavy reality. He was not a man of academic pretension, but a self-taught Danish painter who moved from the architectural precision of his studies in Copenhagen toward a deeply existentialist mode of expression. His trajectory followed a path from the literal to the symbolic. Early on, his canvases captured the mundane rhythms of everyday l…