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List Of Danish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Denmark or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Gudrun Stig Aagaard (1895–1986), textile artist *Astrid Aagesen (1883–1965), designer working with tin and silver, active in Helsingborg, Sweden *Nanna Aakjær (1874–1962), carpenter and woodcarver * Naja Abelsen (born 1964), Greenlandic painter and illustrator *Lene Adler Petersen (born 1944), multidisciplinary artist * Margrethe Agger (born 1943), textile artist specializing in tapestry *Else Alfelt (1910–1974), painter * Catherine Engelhart Amyot (1845–1926), portrait and genre painter *Anna Ancher (1859–1935), painter associated with the Skagen Painters * Helga Ancher (1883–1964), painter, daughter of Anna and Michael Ancher *Rigmor Andersen (1903–1995), furniture designer *Astrid Andreasen (born 1948), Faroese textile and graphic artist * Pia Arke (1958–2007), Greenlandic visual and performance artist, writer and photographer * Aggi Ásger� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Magdalene Bärens
Magdalene Margrethe Bärens (née ''Schäffer'') (30 September 1737 – 6 June 1808) was a Danish artist. She was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark, and the first woman to be elected into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She was a flower- and still-life painter. Biography Bärens was born as the child of Elisabeth Hochkirch and the royal stable master and respected horse expert Johann Hermann Schäffer. She displayed an early talent in drawing, and her father, who assisted the sculptor Jacques-François-Joseph Saly in illustrating the anatomy of horses, encouraged this, while her mother was very negative about her becoming anything else than a wife. After her marriage to the official Johan Georg Bärens in 1761, she initially stopped all artistic activity. However, she resumed it encouraged by the painter Vigilius Erichsen. In 1779, her paintings of flowers in gouache where displayed for the Academy by a professor, and in 1780, she became the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Brøgger
Lilian Brøgger ( Brinch; born 1950) is a Danish illustrator known for illustrating children's books. Biography Born on 27 January 1950 in Nordby on the Danish island of Fanø, Brøgger was brought up in Copenhagen where she studied at the Danish Design School from 1967 to 1972. She was the first student to graduate as an illustrator from the school. The first work with her illustrations, the 25-page book for small children, ''Der hvor Linda bor'' (The Place Where Linda Lives), was published in 1975. She has since illustrated over a hundred books. Much of her artwork is post-modern, and breaks rules of proportions. In 2002, Brøgger received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her illustrations in Hjørdis Varmer's biography of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Brandt
Margit Bjørløw Brandt (27 January 1945 – 24 October 2011) was a Danish fashion designer. Biography Brandt graduated from Margretheskolen (1961–1964), Københavns Tilskærerakademi (1964), and completed an apprenticeship in tailoring. She started her international career in 1965 as an apprentice in Paris with the grand master of the time French fashion designer Pierre Balmain. Her inventiveness and confident style won her recognition and in 1966 she continued her career in the couture house of Louis Feraud on Rue du Fauborg Saint Honore. In 1966 she married Erik Brandt, who was working with the French company Mendes (owned by the nephew of the former French President of the Council Pierre Mendes France), which produced prêt-a-porter for Lanvin, Guy La Roche, Yves Saint Laurent and many others. The marriage would be the catalyst for one of the most successful Scandinavian designer couples. The Brandts returned to Denmark shortly after they got married and in 1966 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Brandes
Elise Brandes (née Rustad, 1873–1918) was a Danish sculptor who specialized in busts. She was the wife of the Danish politician and writer, Edvard Brandes. Biography Brandes was born on 24 July 1873 in Lysaker, Bærum Municipality, in south-eastern Norway. She was the daughter of the physician Carl G. W. Rustad (1839–1918) and his wife Marie M. Hauge. After attending the Royal Drawing and Art School in Kristiania, she moved to Denmark where she studied at the Art School for Women (Kunstskolen for Kvinder) in Copenhagen. From 1905 to 1906, she was a student of Stephan Sinding at the Royal Danish Academy. After marrying Edvard Brandes in 1900, she became associated with the political and cultural elite, several of whom she depicted in her busts. One of her most notable creations is that of the writer Gustav Wied (1909) with his subtle smile and his devilish look. Others depict Edvard's elder brother, the scholar Georg Brandes (1907), the actor Johannes Poulsen (1909), the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birthe Bovin
Berthe (Birthe) Marie Marensine Bovin (31 January 1906 – 12 August 1980) was a self-taught Danish painter who joined the artists' colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters. Biography The daughter of a fisherman, Bovin was born in Kerteminde on the island of Funen. In 1933, she married the poet Sigfred Pedersen but the marriage was dissolved in 1943. From the 1940s, Bovin lived in Odsherred Odsherred is a peninsula in the north-western part of the island Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. Odsherred stretches from the Sjællands Odde in the north-west to the now drained Lammefjord in the south, covering an area with a wide range of the ... where she established contact with the Odsherred Painters. A self-taught painter, she painted landscapes in the area but was also inspired by her travels to Italy and Greece. In 1952, she married Karl Bovin, one of the most prominent members of the Odesherred artists' colony. In addition to her paintings and drawings, Birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elna Borch
Elna Inger Cathrine Borch (6 December 1869 – 3 October 1950) was a Danish sculptor. Although her known work is considered high quality by art dealers, Borch is today largely forgotten and little known to the general public. Biography Borch was born in Roskilde, Denmark. She was the daughter of merchant Anders Jacob Borch (1834–1904) and Martha Petrine Willumsen (1845–1922). She came from a family full of artists, including her uncle Jacob Kornerup (1825–1913), who taught her how to draw. She later learned sculpture in Copenhagen from sculptor August Saabye, who became her instructor when she was at the Academy of Fine Arts for Women (''Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinde''). She debuted at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1891 and continued to exhibit there for several years. She gained the opportunity to study abroad and moved to Paris in 1900 and later to Italy. Her sculptural style references naturalism and symbolism. In Paris in 1901, she sculpted the bust ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thyra Boldsen
Thyra Valborg Boldsen (1884–1968) was a Danish sculptor who created works in a naturalistic style using many different types of stone. She was particularly successful in the United States after moving to California in 1931. Four of her works were installed in Los Angeles' Exposition Park in 1936. In the 1920s, she lectured on art and wrote books on philosophical questions and lifestyle. Her work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Biography Born on 2 January 1884 in Farum, Thyra Valborg Boldsen was the daughter of the farmer Frederik Svane Grundtzmann (1856–1922) and Mathea Christine Nielsen (1855–1891). In 1906, she married the engineer Kai Svane Gnudtzmann but the marriage was dissolved in 1915. Boldsen began to train as a sculptor under Gunnar Jensen. After preparatory studies at the Arts and Crafts School for Women, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1903. As a result of the additional year she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Maria Boglino
Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Boglino (7 May 1905 – 2002) was a Danish-Italian painter, active in Denmark and Italy. Biography The father was ''Legationssekr.'' Alberto Maioli. Boglino grew up with her divorced mother. Boglino married, and settled in Palermo in 1927.Fiume, Marinella (2006): ''Siciliane: Dizionario Biografico'', E. Romeo, s.693.Elisa Maria Boglino at Kulturarv.dk 'Art Index Denmark' According to a colleague from the years in Sicily Lia Pasqualina Noto (it) during the thirties it seems that Boglino had moved to |
Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer
Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer (1899–1986) was a Danish schoolteacher who is remembered for her interest in Danish folklore and traditional dance costumes. Together with Ellen Andersen of the Danish Folk Museum, over a period of 30 years she produced "costume envelopes" or ''dragtkuverter'' for some 100 costumes, each envelope containing patterns for one or more costumes from a given area. Biography Born on 30 January 1899 in Kolding, Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer was the daughter of the postmaster Mads Christian Dreijer (1861–1924) and the schoolteacher Anna Johanne Marie née Boesen (1867–1959). On qualifying as a schoolteacher at N. Zahle's School in 1922, she spent three years as a teacher in Nykøbing Falster and then moved to Copenhagen where she taught until 1966. One of her subjects was handicrafts. In 1922, she became a member of Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (Association for the Promotion of Folk Dance) which since its establishment in 1901 had collected information on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnete Bjørneboe
Agnete Bjørneboe née Bayer (born 1943) is a Tanzanian-born Danish artist and educator whose work covers painting, collage, mosaic and papercutting. Her subjects are inspired by her upbringing in East Africa and by study trips to India, Syria and Egypt. For many years, she has taught art both in the classroom and with individual students. In addition to her artwork as a book illustrator, her creations can be seen in the Museum of Copenhagen. Biography Born on 31 October 1943 in Moshi, Tanzania, Agnete Bayer was the daughter of the engineer Jørgen Nikolaj Bayer and Ulla Goldschmidt. On 5 July 1965, she married the educator Lars Bjørneboe. After completing her schooling in Kenya, she settled in Denmark in 1961 where she graduated in biology from the University of Copenhagen (1975) and attended Aarhus Art Academy in the early 1980s. Her art education also included study trips to India and Nepal (1987), Syria (1994), Cairo (1996), Rome and Peru (1998). Career Bjørneboes artwork was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malene Birger
Malene Birger is a Danish fashion designer. She co-founded Day Birger et Mikkelsen in 1997 and By Malene Birger in 2003. Career Birger graduated from the Danish Design School in 1989. She began her career in the fashion industry in 1989 as designer at Jackpot by Carli Gry. She was also the head designer of women's wear at Marc O'Polo in Stockholm. In 1997, Birger co-founded the company Day Birger et Mikkelsen. She was the creative director of the company until leaving it in 2002. In 2003, she founded By Malene Birger in collaboration with IC Group. In 2010, Birger sold her share of the company to IC Group. She left the position as creative director in January 2014 and now runs the interior design company Birger1962. In 2015 she founded the eponymous design consultancy MALENE BIRGER’S WORLD. And she has recently launched a small jewellery collection GOLD&ME. In later years she has also become a successful artist creating art prints which are recognized by black and white ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
