Aka Høegh

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Nukardleĸ Najâraĸ Eva Høegh , known as Aka Høegh [ nuˈkaɬːɜq naˈjɑːʁɑq ˈeːva aˈka høˀ ] (born December 16, 1947 in Qullissat ) is a Greenlandic artist ( sculptor and painter ).

Life

Aka Høegh's interest in art was aroused at an early age by her parents. It was Jens Rosing who further increased this interest by providing her with professional drawing tools when she was still a child. Later she was tutored by Hans Lynge , who was not only active as a writer but also as a sculptor and painter. After attending school in Qullissat and high school in Aasiaat , she wrote to the Greenland Ministry in 1967 , hoping to receive a scholarship for professional art training that Aka, who came from a poorer family, could not afford. However, she was subsequently told that she should rather train as a nurse, which she finally began in Copenhagen , but broke off after a short time. However, she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen for some time , where she was taught by Robert Jacobsen , Ole Christensen and Svend Wiig Hansen . In the early 1970s she was at the later art school in Nuuk , where she was allowed to teach from 1973 to 1976.

Her art was an important means of preserving the identity of the Greenlanders against the Danification of the country during this time . Bodil Kaalund made her art, which consisted largely of natural elements, also known in Denmark . She was part of the artist associations Ex Dania and Ante por la Vida . Aside from Greenland and Denmark, her works of art have also been exhibited in the Faroe Islands , Germany , the Netherlands , Israel , Alaska , Mexico , Bolivia , Iceland , Norway , Sweden , Finland , Latvia and Lithuania .

family

Aka Høegh is the daughter of the cooper Ib Peter Adolf Thaarup Høegh (1912–1981) and the judge Else Margrethe Guldborg Rosing Heilmann (1919–2010). Her paternal grandfather is Pavia Høegh (1886–1956). On her mother's side, her grandfather is the pastor and writer Karl Heilmann (1893–1958). On June 19, 1976, she married the Latvian artist, writer and photographer Ivars Sīlis (* 1940), son of Jānis Sīlis (1908–?) And Hermīne Tatjana Bremze Greitāne (1920–2015). The couple have two children, both of whom are also artists: Inuk Silis-Høegh (* 1972) and Bolatta Tatjana Paarnaq Silis-Høegh (* 1981).

Honors

  • Dansk Grønlandsk Culture Fund (1975)
  • Jens Rosings Pris (1976)
  • Nordisk Culture Fund (1977)
  • Grønlands Hjemmestyres Kulturpris (1989)
  • Goldschmidt's legacy
  • Nord's institute
  • Heerup's legacy
  • Soroptimisternes legacy
  • Anne Marie Telmanyi's Legacy (1992)
  • Anne Marie Telmanyi's Legacy (1995)
  • Nuna Fondens Pris (1995)
  • Eikhoff's legacy
  • Wessel Art Foundation (1996)
  • Knight of the Order of Dannebrog (1997)
  • Æreslegat fra CL David's Fund (2003)
  • Hans Lynges Opmuntringslegat (2003)
  • Nersornaat (2013)
  • Knight 1st degree of the Dannebrog Order (2015)
  • Jacob Letterstedts nordiske fortjenstmedalje (2018)

Works (selection)

  • Anora-blæsten (etching, 1974)
  • Grønlandsk Art Calendar (calendar illustration, 1976)
  • Myter og sagn fra Grønland (book illustration for Knud Rasmussen's trilogy, 1979)
  • Greenland Christmas Postage Stamp (1980)
  • Church and baptismal font of the Church in Maniitsoq (1981)
  • Mytologisk rejse i et grønlandsk landskab (book illustration, 1985)
  • Altar, baptismal font and ceiling of the church in Tasiilaq (1986)
  • Relief of the university in Qaqortoq (1989)
  • Auditorium of the high school in Qaqortoq (1989)
  • Proyecto Víbora (as part of Arte por la Vida ; world's largest masonry work of art in Elche , 1991)
  • Sten og menneske (stone sculptures in Qaqortoq, 1993/94)
  • Frieze of the Jakobskirke in Roskilde (1994)
  • The somebody (collage, 1994)
  • Strømninger (wall in the Pinngortitaleriffik in Nuuk, 1998)
  • Frihjul (book illustration for Prince Henrik's collection of poems, 2009/10)
  • Portraits by Jonathan Motzfeldt , Laannguaq Lynge , Henrik Lund , Isak Trolle and Agnethe Davidsen
  • Other public works of art in Denmark and Greenland

literature

Camilla Augustinus: Høegh, Aka . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 73, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023178-6 , p. 500., full text

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
  2. ↑ a b biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  3. ↑ CV ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ilukunstmus.gl @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ilukunstmus.gl
  4. ↑ CV at dengyldne.dk
  5. ↑ Hermīne Tatjana Bremze Greitāne at nekropole.info
  6. ↑ Tildelingen af Nersornaat i sølv til Aka Høegh on the side of the Parliament of Greenland
  7. ↑ Aka Høegh modtager endnu et ridderkors in Sermitsiaq
  8. ↑ Flot hæder til billedkunstner Aka Høegh in Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Høegh, Aka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Høegh, Nukardleĸ Najâraĸ Eva (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Qullissat