Else Alfelt
Else Alfelt (born September 16, 1910 in Copenhagen ; † August 9, 1974 there ) was a Danish painter and member of the artist group CoBrA .
life and work
Else Kirsten Tove Alfelt was born in Copenhagen. After her parents divorced, she spent the time between the ages of 7 and 15 in a boarding school, after which she attended Københavns Tekniske Skole , the craft school in Copenhagen. Else Alfelt had been painting since she was 13, and at 17 she discovered oil painting. Alfelt was an autodidact as a painter .
In 1933 she attended Den Internationale Højskole University in Helsingør . There she met Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913–2007), who modeled her for the portrait “The Young Communist” and whom she later encouraged to become a painter. Alfelt and Pedersen married in 1934 and had two daughters. Alfelt had her first solo exhibition in the Thorkild Hansen art gallery in Copenhagen. In 1942 she became a member of the artist group Høst .
In 1948 Asger Jorn wrote a manifesto with artist colleagues , which Else Alfelt, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Egill Jacobsen , Ejler Bille , Dahlmann Olsen and Erik Thommesen signed. The artist groups from Co hagen, Br üssel and A msterdam united, among other things, on the initiative of Asger Jorn on November 8 that year in a cafe in Paris to CoBrA.
In 1976, the Carl-Henning Pedersen og Else Alfelts Museum was opened in Herning in Jutland .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1952 Cobra Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh
- 1949 International Experimental Art Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam.
- 1948 Nordiska Konstnärinnor / Nordic artists Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm.
- 1947 Danish Abstract Art with Ejler Bille , Else Fischer-Hansen, Richard Mortensen, Svavar Guðnason , Henry Heerup and Carl-Henning Pedersen in Göteborgs Konsthall , Göteborg
Awards
- 1950 Travel grant from the Carlsberg Foundation
literature
- COBRA – CO penhagen BR üssel A msterdam Contributions by Troels Andersen, Luc de Heusch, Richard Miller, Carl Nörrested, Peter Shield, Freddy de Vree and others. Jörg Zutter, Kunsthalle Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 1997–1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography Else Alfeld 1910-1974 by Lotte Korshøj ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelts Museum ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2015 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alfelt, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alfelt, Else Kirsten Tove |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |