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Henriette Marie Antonette Luplau (September 7, 1848 – August 16, 1925) was a Danish artist and educator, active in the women's movement. She conducted an art school for women in
"What We Want: The Art of Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt"
''Feminist Studies'' 35(3)(Fall 2009): 549-572. She spent several years pursuing further studies in Munich, and moved to Paris to study at the
In 1886, Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt founded an art school in their home in Copenhagen, to prepare women for admission to the Art Academy's programs when they opened to women in 1888. The school operated until 1913. The school was located at 
She also wrote about women's health, bicycles and dress reform, all themes addressed in Luplau's 1894 essay "On Cycling for Women" ("Om Cykling for Damer").
Marie Luplau's 1917 painting of her mother and other early Danish feminists, "In the Early Days of the Women's Suffrage Campaign," hung for many years in the Danish Parliament building. The Women's Museum in Aarhus hosted a show of Luplau and Mundt's works in 2007."Symbiose af liv og kunst"
Kvindemuseet Denmark, August 30-December 30, 2007.
Marie Luplau met Emilie Mundt when they were both students of Vilhelm Kyhn. They lived and worked together for the rest of their lives, and in 1891 adopted a daughter, Carla Mundt-Luplau. Luplau was considered "mannish" in her appearance and habits, wearing short-cropped hair and tailored clothing, riding a bicycle and smoking cigars.
Marie Luplau died in 1925, age 76, three years after Emilie Mundt's death in 1922. The couple's graves are in
File:Luplau-Bois-Amour-1883.jpg, ''Le Bois d'Amour'' (1883)
File:Marie Luplau Paysage d'été près de Frederiksvaerk.png, ''Summer Landscape Close to Frederiksvaerk''
File:Marie Luplau Symbolistisk Gadeparti 1898.jpg, ''Symbolist Street Scene'' (1898)
File:Marie Luplau - Markparti med figur - 1896.png, ''Landscape with woman walking'' (1997)
Henriette Marie Antonette Luplau (September 7, 1848 – August 16, 1925) was a Danish artist and educator, active in the women's movement. She conducted an art school for women in Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
with her partner, artist Emilie Mundt
Caroline Emilie Mundt (22 August 1842, Sorø – 25 October 1922, Frederiksberg) was a Danish painter, known for her portraits of children.
Biography
Her father, Carl Emil Mundt, was a Professor of mathematics at the Sorø Academy. Her mother ...
.
Early life and education
Marie Luplau was born inVarde
Varde is a Danish city in southwestern Jutland and is the primary city in the municipality of Varde, in Region of Southern Denmark. In 2015 municipality changed its motto to "We in nature" to emphasize its rural atmosphere. The town has an old ma ...
on the Jutland Peninsula
Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...
, the daughter of Daniel Carl Erhard Luplau, a village pastor, and Line Luplau
Line Luplau (1823–1891) was a Danish feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (Danish Women's Society Suffrage Union) and first chairperson in 1889-1891.
Life
Line Luplau was born o ...
, a feminist newspaper publisher and suffragist. She studied art with Vilhelm Kyhn
Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn (March 30, 1819 – May 11, 1903) was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outliv ...
, one of the few instructors in Copenhagen who was willing to accept female students.Barbara Sjoholm"What We Want: The Art of Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt"
''Feminist Studies'' 35(3)(Fall 2009): 549-572. She spent several years pursuing further studies in Munich, and moved to Paris to study at the
Académie Colarossi
The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...
there.
In 1875, with support from the Danish Women's Association (DK), Luplau and five other women artists submitted applications to study at the Art Academy of Denmark; they were rejected not based on the quality of their work, but because the institution did not accept female students.
Career
In 1886, Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt founded an art school in their home in Copenhagen, to prepare women for admission to the Art Academy's programs when they opened to women in 1888. The school operated until 1913. The school was located at Gammel Kongevej
Gammel Kongevej (literally "Old King's Road) is the principal shopping street of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Running roughly parallel to Frederiksberg Allé and Vesterbrogade, it extends from Vesterport station at the southern end of Th ...
136-38 in Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of ...
. The building was owned by Albert Nicolai Schioldann
Albert Nicolai Schioldann (21 January 1843 - 23 February 1917) was a Danish master mason, developer and philanthropist.
Early life and education
Schioldann was born on 21 January 1843 in Copenhagen, the son of architect and master mason J.N. Schi ...
. Among their notable students were Emilie Demant Hatt, Astrid Valborg Holm, and Olivia Holm-Møller
Olivia Holm-Møller (1875–1970) was a Danish painter and sculptor. Her richly coloured, almost abstract paintings provide a bridge between the early Danish Modernism of the 1910s and the Cobra works of the 1950s.
Biography
Born in Homå near Gr ...
.
She also wrote about women's health, bicycles and dress reform, all themes addressed in Luplau's 1894 essay "On Cycling for Women" ("Om Cykling for Damer").
Marie Luplau's 1917 painting of her mother and other early Danish feminists, "In the Early Days of the Women's Suffrage Campaign," hung for many years in the Danish Parliament building. The Women's Museum in Aarhus hosted a show of Luplau and Mundt's works in 2007.Kvindemuseet Denmark, August 30-December 30, 2007.
Personal life
Marie Luplau met Emilie Mundt when they were both students of Vilhelm Kyhn. They lived and worked together for the rest of their lives, and in 1891 adopted a daughter, Carla Mundt-Luplau. Luplau was considered "mannish" in her appearance and habits, wearing short-cropped hair and tailored clothing, riding a bicycle and smoking cigars.
Marie Luplau died in 1925, age 76, three years after Emilie Mundt's death in 1922. The couple's graves are in Solbjerg Park Cemetery
Solbjerg Park Cemetery ( da, Solbjerg Parkkirkegård) Is a 19-hectare cemetery in Frederiksberg in the western outskirts of inner Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1865, it is one of three cemeteries in Frederiksberg Municipality
Frederiksberg Ko ...
in Copenhagen.
Gallery
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External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Luplau, Marie 1848 births 1925 deaths 19th-century Danish painters 20th-century Danish painters Danish feminists People from Varde Municipality Académie Colarossi alumni Women's education in Denmark