Early Life and Training
He was born in Copenhagen to master cabinetmaker Georg Friederich Lillie and wife Maria Eva Schils. He is presumed to have trained as a cabinetmaker.
He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ca. 1774-1780, and was a student of Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, then Director of the Academy and Denmark’s leading architect in the late 18th century, now referred to as “The Father of Danish Classicism”. He won both the Academy’s little silver medallion and the large silver medallion in 1775. He won the little gold medallion in 1777, and the large gold medallion in 1779, the same year as fellow architecture student Christian Frederik Hansen won his gold medallion. He and Hansen became friends, and Lillie worked closely with him during his career.
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