Agnes Cathinka Wilhelmine Lunn (16 March 1850 – 12 December 1941) was a Danish painter and sculptor.

Biography

Lunn was born as a daughter to Villars Knudsen L. and Frederikke Amalie Hagen at

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. She drew horses as a child and was fascinated by the form and movements of animals, leading her to the art of sculpture. A spinster, she died at Sønder Jernløse in 1941. She was a student of F. C. Lund and Otto Bache in Denmark. She also studied in Paris under J.-L. Gérôme, Leon Bonnat, and J. Bastien-Lepage. She attended the art school for women at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and travelled to Paris,

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. Lunn has exhibited her works at, e.g., the spring exhibition at Charlottenborg, at the Women's Exhibition in

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and at the National Exhibition of 1909 in

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. A small exhibition with sculptures and paintings by Lunn was held at the

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in Copenhagen in 2016. Among her sculptures, ''Hamlette'' (bronze statuette, 1899), ''Two Swimming Horses'' (bronze statuette, 1906, David Collection), and ''Resting Cow'' (1913, the Museum at Sønderborg Castle) could be mentioned.

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