Buuti Pedersen

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Bodil Hansigne "Buuti" Pedersen (born August 26, 1955 in Qaqortoq ) is a Greenlandic artist .

Life

Buuti Pedersen is the daughter of master bricklayer Poul Peder Pedersen and his wife Konkordia Else Sofie Mariane Benjaminsen. Through her mother she is a great niece of the artist Johan Markussen (1906–1994). On May 9, 1992 in Lillerød she married the senior assistant Ole Gottschalck Jensen (* 1947), son of the electrical mechanic Vagn Gottschalck and the office assistant Ketty Elisabeth Jespersen.

Buuti attended the art school in Holbæk in 1973 and the recreational education seminar in Copenhagen from 1974 to 1977 . From 1977 to 1982 she worked as a teacher in Greenland and Denmark. From 1982 to 1986 she attended the Copenhagen School of Applied Art. Shortly afterwards, she exhibited art for the first time in Det Grønlandske Hus in Copenhagen. From 1991 to 1992 she headed the Greenland art workshop Qiperoq in Copenhagen. Her works have been exhibited in Greenland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, France and Germany to this day.

She mainly devotes herself to landscape painting . She works with watercolor , pastel and oil colors . Her paintings are mostly true to life, but some of her works are also abstract . She was allowed to decorate several buildings in Greenland with her art. She has also regularly designed stamps for POST Greenland since 1995 .

Works (selection)

  • Isbjørne og hvaler (lithography, 1987)
  • Fjeldræve (three pastels, hotel in Kangerlussuaq , 1987)
  • three oil paintings, embassy in Riyadh (1987)
  • Landskab med fugle (watercolor, town hall in Nuuk , 1988)
  • Indlandsbræ (lithograph, 1988)
  • Storsøen ved Julianehåb (two oil pastel drawings, Sulisartut Højskoliat in Qaqortoq)
  • Abstract painter (Gouache, 1988)
  • I airens land (1988)
  • Julianehåbsfjorden (1993)
  • Decoration in the Katuaq in Nuuk (1995)
  • Forårstegn (stained glass with concrete sculpture, KNR in Nuuk, 1996)
  • Decoration in Grønlandsbanken in Qaqortoq (2009)
  • Decoration in Tasiilaq Prison (2012)
  • Decoration in the church of Alluitsup Paa (2012)
  • Decoration in the Hotel Qaqortoq (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Biography in Weilbach's artist dictionary
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g CV at buuti.dk
personal data
SURNAME Pedersen, Buuti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedersen, Bodil Hansigne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Qaqortoq