Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

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Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen , also Anna Maria Carl-Nielsen (born June 21, 1863 on the Tygesminde estate in Sønder Stenderup Sogn near Kolding , † February 22, 1945 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish sculptor .

Life

Anna Maria Carl-Nielsen was the daughter of farmer Paul Julius Brodersen (* 1828; † 14 September 1899) and his wife Frederikke Johanne (née Gylling) (* 1826; † 1904) and grew up on a large farm with lots of animals ; her father was one of the first to import cattle directly from England .

She developed artistic inclinations as a child and her first work in 1875 was a little clay sheep from the farm garden.

In 1880 she came to Christian Carl Magnussen's carving school in Schleswig , where she stayed for three months and mainly learned to draw.

In 1882 she went to Copenhagen and attended Wilhelm Klein's drawing school for women and that same year in November became a student of the sculptor August Saabye (1823-1916), with whom she worked for several years. Other teachers were the painters Jørgen Roed and Henrik Olrik (1830–1890).

In 1884 she exhibited a portrait bust for the first time at the Charlottenburg spring exhibition and in 1887 she won a cash prize for the Thor fountain group with the Midgard snake .

In 1895 she won a prize for a design for the main portal of Copenhagen City Hall. In the same year the Copenhagen Art Association showed her works in a solo exhibition.

In 1889 she attended the newly opened art school for women in Copenhagen for almost a year, which was on an equal footing with the Royal Danish Art Academy and which enabled her to take part in the academy's gold medal competition, in which she was unsuccessful.

Together with the sculptor Agnes Lunn (1850–1941) she traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium and the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889; there she won the bronze medal for the bronze sculpture Two Calves ; She spent the winter of 1890 to 1891 in Paris thanks to a travel grant from the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts .

From 1892 to 1944 she participated regularly in the exhibitions in the free exhibition halls in Copenhagen, where her works were shown in a solo exhibition in 1931.

She stayed in Italy from 1899 to 1900, in 1903 in Athens and Constantinople and in 1928 in Greece and Egypt .

She participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics in competitions for artistic achievement.

Anna Maria Carl-Nielsen married the Danish band musician Carl Nielsen on April 18, 1891 , whom she had met on March 2, 1891 in Paris; in the period from 1919 to 1922 the couple separated. They had three children together:

  • Irmelin Johanne Carl-Nielsen (born December 9, 1891 - September 9, 1974), married to Eggert Møller;
  • Anne Marie Frederikke Carl-Nielsen (born March 4, 1893; † April 17, 1983 in Hørsholm ), painter and writer, married to the Hungarian musician Emil Telmányi ;
  • Hans Børge Carl-Nielsen (born September 5, 1895 - † August 13, 1956 in Kolding ).

Her funeral took place in Copenhagen Cathedral and she is buried in Vestre Cemetery next to her husband.

In 1957 the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Legacy Foundation was set up, which awards prizes of honor every year; it is Denmark's largest independent culture award.

Artistic work

She created various portrait busts and monuments, but primarily small figurative sculptures , especially animal figures, which are characterized by a haunting realism, in addition, she made impressionistic sketches and studies of animals in motion. At the turn of the century it was influenced by Art Nouveau .

In Athens she copied the Poros group from the pediment of the Ancient Temple of Athena . The result was a relief of a lion's head with bared teeth, resting over four folded wings. The figurative representation has been located as the lion of St. Mark on the north portal of the Ribe Cathedral since 1904 ; she also created other artistic works on the three doors of the cathedral.

Works of art at Ribe Cathedral

  • Lion of St. Mark

  • Door handle in the shape of a girl

  • Door handle in the form of a snail

  • Door handle in the form of a peacock

Participation in exhibitions outside Denmark

Honors

  • On November 17, 1927, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen was awarded the Ingenio et arti medal.
  • In 1928 she created a portrait bust of her husband, for which she received the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1932.
  • In 1943 she was accepted as an honorary member of the Danish Sculpture Society.
  • In 1946, a memorial exhibition was held in the Free Exhibition Hall building in Copenhagen.

Memberships

  • Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen had been a permanent member of the Free Exhibition Halls in Copenhagen since 1893.
  • In 1916 she founded an artists' association with the painter Anna Ancher .
Equestrian statue of Christian IX.
Queen Dagmar statue

Works (selection)

  • Her main work is the equestrian monument to King Christian IX commissioned in 1908 . in the Christiansborg Palace courtyard in Copenhagen, which was unveiled on November 15, 1927; she was the first woman to receive such an assignment.
  • In 1913 she created the monument to Queen Dagmar in Riberhus Castle in Ribe .
  • In 1927 she created the memorial for Skipper Clement in Aalborg .
  • In 1932, part of the base of the equestrian monument was built on Skagen as a Danish fisherman and rescuer ( Dansk Fisker og Redningsmand ).
  • There are two statues in memory of her husband in Nørre Lyndelse . The first is a bust in the school yard of the Carl Nielsen School. The bust was donated by the New Carlsberg Foundation at the inauguration of the school in 1960. The second statue from 1933 shows Carl Nielsen as a little flute player on a tree stump on the highway in the southwest corner of the parish garden, right next to the nursing home.
  • In 1939 the Carl Nielsen memorial on Grønningen Street in central Copenhagen was unveiled to a young man playing on a wingless Pegasus panpipe , also known as Musikken's Genius .
  • In 1942 she created Dronning Margrete I in Roskilde .
  • In Odense , her works are exhibited in her husband's museum.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6

Web links

Commons : Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Competitions at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Mixed Sculpturing, Unknown Event. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Anne Marie Carl Nielsen. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen's legacy. Retrieved December 29, 2019 (da-DK).
  4. ^ Art Competitions at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Mixed Sculpturing, Unknown Event. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Modtagere af Thorvaldsen medals. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ Skipper Clement. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Monuments and art in byen. Retrieved December 29, 2019 (Danish).
  8. ↑ Dronning Margrethe I. Hele Danmarks museum for kunst i det offentlige rum, 2006, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Conservation of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen's works. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Carl-Nielsen, Anne Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carl-Nielsen, Anna Maria; Nielsen, Anne Marie Carl-; Nielsen, Anne Marie Carl; Carl Nielsen, Anne Marie; Nielsen, Anne Marie; Brodersen, Anne Marie; Nielsen, Anne Marie Brodersen; Brodersen, Anna; Broderson, Anna Marie; Nielsen, Anna Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Tygesminde estate, Sønder Stenderup Sogn near Kolding
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1945
Place of death Copenhagen