Isle Hessner

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Isle Hessner (actually Lise Hessner ; * 1962 in Nanortalik ) is a Greenlandic artist .

Life

Isle Hessner studied at the Art School in Nuuk , the Art Academy in Copenhagen , the Art Academy in Helsinki , the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs . She is considered a pioneer of contemporary Greenlandic art. As a sculptor, she works with materials such as iron, wood and concrete, but also with seal skin, felt and plaster. Her works have been shown in group exhibitions in Greenland, all of Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Alaska and Russia. She also had solo exhibitions in Greenland, Iceland and Denmark. Sculptures of her can be found in Halifax, Oslo , Roskilde , in front of Katuaq in Nuuk and on the Fram .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Greenland Collector issue 18/1 (January 2013) (p. 9)
  2. ↑ a b Det tredie store kunstværk i Katuaq in Atuagagdliutit of August 12, 1997
  3. ↑ Exhibitions in the Listasafn Sigurjóns Ólafssonar at lso.is
  4. ↑ Art walk on the Nuuk Art Museum website (.pdf)
  5. ↑ art guide at fyens.dk
personal data
SURNAME Hessner, Isle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hessner, Lise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanortalics