Anthon Berthelsen

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Anthon Kristian Josva Berthelsen (born May 23, 1955 in Nuuk ) is a Greenlandic artist .

art

Anthon Berthelsen did not have any artistic training. He works sculpturally with soapstone . His works depict both mythological scenes and everyday situations from earlier times. His figures wear old costumes, but the faces are often roughly worked. Some of his works consist of only one figure, in others he joins larger groups, whereby he usually creates the connections by the figures sitting together on boulders.

His works were exhibited in Denmark in 1986 and 1993. In 1982 he was one of the first to be awarded the Greenland Culture Prize .

Works (selection)

  • Drum dancers on a stone
  • Woman with two children (issued 1986)
  • Hunter with drum and seal and polar bear skin on his back (1992)
  • Drum dance, nine figures (issued 1993)
  • Two women with pearl collars (issued 1993)
  • Mattak-Eating Boy (issued 1993)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in Weilbach's artist lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Berthelsen, Anthon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthelsen, Anthon Kristian Josva (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuuk