* Knud Jensen; Founded Danish Art Museum

Knud Jensen, 84, the multimillionaire founder of the Louisiana, Denmark’s renowned museum of modern art. Born in Copenhagen, Jensen took over his father’s cheese wholesale company in 1944. He sold it 12 years later to dedicate his life--and his family’s fortune--to the support of art. Two years later he bought an old villa, called the Louisiana estate, which is surrounded by a park offering stunning views of the Oresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden. Conceived as a showcase for postwar Danish art, the museum has been imaginatively extended several times, adding galleries above and below ground to exhibit international modern art, photography and sculpture. Sculptures in the park include major pieces by British sculptor Henry Moore and American master of the mobile Alexander Calder, both close friends of Jensen. Jensen, who had been living in a wing of the museum, died Tuesday.