Ejler Bille

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Ejler Bille (born March 6, 1910 in Odder in Jutland , Denmark , † May 1, 2004 ) was a Danish sculptor and painter and member of the artists' association CoBrA .

life and work

Ejler Bille graduated from the Kunsthåndværkerskolen / Arts and Crafts School in Copenhagen with Bizzie Høyer from 1930 to 1932 and then went to the Royal Danish Art Academy . Bille joined the Linien group in 1934 and the Corner artist group in 1940 . In 1949 he became a member of the CoBrA artists' association . Bille initially created small sculptures and later began painting. His source of inspiration was Kandinsky and other abstract artists.

“Eijler Bille, [...] is the first to rebel against the prescriptions of the Parisian surrealists and urges his artist colleagues to wake up from their“ dream-photographic ”trance and let their creative imagination shoot the reins. However, Jacobsen's “Obhobning” must have a signal effect before Bille recognizes the direction to be taken, even if he can sense it himself in the form of the encrypted, often brightly painted signs and masks of the organic sculptures that he has been making since 1931 seems. His painting, on the other hand, was never able to free itself from the corset of balanced abstract composition, with weak contours and twists à la Arp - until 1938, when his work broke this frame and merged into bright colors and wild figurations. Next to Jacobsen, Bille had the greatest influence on the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró , who was to be of great importance for the entire COBRA movement. From 1948/49 onwards, however, Bille reflected on his temperament, restrained compositions in soft colors. [...] Eijler Bille has been pursuing his lyrical abstraction since 1945, which sometimes borders on the decorative. "

- Willemijn Stokvis

Awards

  • 1960: Eckersberg medals
  • 1969: Thorvaldsen Medalje
  • 1987: Prins Eugens Medalje
  • 2001: Amalienborg prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oxford index Ejler Bille accessed on February 18, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ cobra Bille accessed on February 18, 2018 (English)
  3. ^ Cobra, Willemijn Stokvis, An International Movement in Art after World War II, pages 8 and 21, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 3-07-50-9200-2
personal data
SURNAME Bille, Ejler
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bille, Ejler Kristian Torbensen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sculptor and painter and member of the CoBrA artists' association
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Odder , Jutland , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2004