Talbar was awarded the German first class Federal Cross of Merit in 1985, received the Danish Knight’s Cross Dannebrog in 1993, and, in 2011, he became honorary citizen of Jerusalem.
He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, decorated with the Order of Leopold, Belgium, the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark.
Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) - 20 November 1956, "in recognition of valuable services rendered by him as adviser to the Danish Government on the reorganisation of the Royal Danish Air Force".
In 1995, he was knighted as Knight 1st Degree of the Order of the Dannebrog.
On 14 September 1984, Høyem was awarded the honour of kommandør af Dannebrogordenen.
In that year, very unusually for a performing artist, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
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# Grand Commanders of the Dannebrog
Steen was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav (1947) and a Knight of the Order of the Crown, the Order of the Dannebrog, the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Polar Star.
He received a Red Cross honorary medal, and was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, the Order of the Polar Star and the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by HM The Queen of Denmark in recognition of his promotion of the work of Arne Jacobsen, the Danish architect who designed St Catherine's.