Anna Klindt Sørensen (9 August 1899 – 28 July 1985) was a Danish painter and illustrator.
She is now remembered as a strong, self-assured woman who practised French
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
on her own terms in Denmark.
Biography
Born in
Ry in central Jutland, Anna Klindt Sørensen came from a well-to-do family who owned a large estate. She received private painting lessons at home from the landscape painter
Pauline Thomsen, a pupil of
Vilhelm Kyhn. After schooling in
Silkeborg
Silkeborg () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 52,571 (1 January 2025).[Folk High School
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, she entered Albertine Wesenberg's school for porcelain decoration in Copenhagen but soon left to concentrate on painting, producing ''Udsigt over Øm Kloster'' (1918) in Thomsen's
Naturalist
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style. After a short period at another folk high school, Borups Højskole, she prepared to enter the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts by studying under Viggo Brandt. She spent only three semesters at the Academy (1919–20) as she was not happy with
Valdemar Irminger's approach to modern art. Instead, in 1923, she went to Paris where she studied under
Marcel Gromaire,
Fernand Léger and
André Lhote, acquiring a good basis for creating her
Expressionist works. In 1935, she returned to Denmark to spend another year at the Academy, this time studying sculpture under
Einar Utzon-Frank. In 1936, she exhibited her sculptures, paintings, decorated glass and textiles at a private exhibition in Aarhus.
[
During the ]Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, she went to the island of Bornholm
Bornholm () is a List of islands of Denmark, Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. I ...
where, together with Olga Lau, Ebba Schou, Ellen Fisher and Asta Ring Schultz, she created an artists colony for women.[ She then lived partly in Copenhagen and partly in her home town in Jutland, where she painted warm landscapes of Djursland and Ry in addition to exotic scenes of foreign countries. Her portraits also exhibit personal vitality as can be seen in those of the artists Holger J. Jensen (1939) and Jeppe Vontillius (1944) and, above all, those of her mother.
Anna Klindt Sørensen died in Ry on 28 July 1985.][
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Awards
In 1963, Klindt Sørensen was awarded the Eckersberg Medal
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting.
The ...
and, in 1976, the Thorvaldsen Medal.[
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References
External links
Illustrated list of Anna Klindt Sørensen's works in Danish museums from Kunstindeks Danmark
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1899 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Danish painters
20th-century Danish women artists
20th-century Danish illustrators
Danish women illustrators
People from Skanderborg Municipality
Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal
Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni