Anne-Birthe Hove

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Anne-Birthe Hove (born June 28, 1951 in Aasiaat ; † August 5, 2012 ) was a Greenlandic - Danish artist .

Life

Anne-Birthe Hove was the daughter of the Danish businessman Anders Hove (1922–?) And the kindergarten teacher Birthe Jensen (1931–?). The actor Anders Hove (* 1956) is her brother. About him, she was the sister-in-law of the American dancer Ann Crosset (* 1954) and the aunt of the actor Elliott Crosset Hove (* 1988). On January 16, 1993, she married the Danish district doctor Thomas Stensgaard (* 1946), son of the businessman Aage Stensgaard and his wife Agnes in Nuuk .

Anne-Birthe Hove attended the Greenland Art School in Nuuk and began teaching there a little later. Then she went to the art academy in Copenhagen , where she studied from 1980 to 1982 with Dan Sterup-Hansen at the graphic school and from 1982 to 1984 with Helge Bertram at the art education school.

Anne-Birthe Hove's works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Sweden, Germany, France and the Netherlands. She was active as a graphic designer , painter , sculptor , illustrator and stamp artist . Her works partly show the Greenlandic nature, but she also concentrated heavily on the representation of Greenlandic social life and social problems in the 1970s and 1980s.

Anne-Birthe Hove received the Greenland Culture Prize in 2012 . She died a few weeks later at the age of 61 after a long illness in Denmark.

Awards and grants

  • Statens Art Fund (1976)
  • Statens Art Fund (1991)
  • Grønlands Hjemmestyres arbejdslegat (1997)
  • Hans Lynges Mindelegat (1997)
  • Grønlands Hjemmestyres arbejdslegat (1999)
  • Statens Art Fund (2001)
  • Statens Art Fund arbejdslegat (2001)
  • Anne Marie Telmanyi født Carl-Nielsen's Fund (2002)
  • Grønlands Hjemmestyres arbejdslegat (2003)
  • Greenland Culture Prize (2012)

Works (selection)

  • Ukiaq / vinter (lithograph, 1974)
  • Imiaq / øl (lithograph, 1974)
  • Sialuk (lithograph, 1976)
  • Ataatsimitarfik / mødet (lithography, 1982)
  • Livet og døden (ceramics for the chapel in Dronning Ingrids Hospital in Nuuk, includes seven soapstone lamps, made by Simon Kristoffersen , Karl Kristoffersen and Sara Kristoffersen , 1986/87)
  • six menus for SAS Scandinavian Airlines (1988)
  • Spiegel van het Verlegen / spejlinger af fortiden (etching, 1988/89)
  • Konebåd (color etching, 1989)
  • Sommertelt (Farbätzradierung, 1989)
  • three paintings for the shipyard in Qaqortoq (1991)
  • Chimney of the power plant in Aasiaat (1991)
  • Elven (etching, 1992)
  • Lille Bodil (etching, 1992)
  • Decoration for the official hospital in Vordingborg (1997)
  • Decoration for the Aasiaat airport (1998)
  • Illustration for Anersaama pikialaarneri by Moses Olsen (1998)
  • Decoration for the Hotel Nuuk (2000)
  • Stamp series Arv og culture (2000–02)
  • Decoration for the psychiatric ward at Dronning Ingrids Hospital (2001)
  • Illustration for Tusarn! Sydgrønlandske fortællinger by Maaliaaraq Vebæk (2001)
  • Illustration for Nunat Avannarliit nunarpullu / Norden i Grønland - Grønland i Norden (2002)
  • Illustration for Min krop er min (2003)
  • Decoration for the tower block in Nuuk (2006)
  • Decoration for the frame of the Hurtigruten (2007)
  • Decoration for the University of Greenland (2008)
  • Decoration for the swimming pool in Gudhjem (2010)
  • Communication stamp series (2010)
  • Decoration for the Pinngortitaleriffik (2013)
  • Menneskebjerget (etching)
  • Graphic for the city hall in Nuuk

Source:

literature

Web links

  • Homepage of Anne-Birthe Hove (with catalog raisonné)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 31 .
  2. ↑ a b Anne-Birthe Hove er død in Sermitsiaq
  3. ↑ Helvig Thal Jantzen, Valdemar Thal-Jantzen: Sophie Hedevig Utke f. Heilmann og hendes efterkommere. 1973. P. 63. (.pdf)
  4. ↑ a b c Entry in Weilbach's artist lexicon
  5. ↑ a b c CV at annebirthehove.com
  6. ↑ Om Anne-Birthe Hove at annebirthehove.com
  7. ↑ Kulturprisen burrows in the Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Hove, Anne-Birthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland-Danish artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Aasiaat
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2012