Kiistat Lund

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Kiistat Lund (according to the old spelling Kîstat Lund ; born October 11, 1944 in Ammassivik ; † January 8, 2017 in Qaqortoq ) was a Greenlandic artist .

Life

Kiistat Lund was the illegitimate daughter of the merchant Birtha Johanne Lund married. Poulsen (1919-?). Her grandfather Louis Lund (1889–?) Was the youngest brother of the poet and painter Henrik Lund (1875–1948). Her grandmother was Marie Kathrine Elisabeth Julia Johannesen (1893–?). Her mother worked in Qaqortoq and so Kiistat spent many years of her childhood with her grandparents in Ammassivik. Her grandmother and other ancients told her many myths from South Greenland that would later inspire her. She drew a lot in her childhood and later wanted to become an architect. When she was twelve she moved to live with her mother in Qaqortoq. In 1963 she finished secondary school in Nuuk and then moved to Denmark , where she attended school in Viborg before going to high school from 1966. In 1970 she completed a teacher training course at the seminary in Hjørring . She started to work as a teacher in Greenland and worked in Narsaq from 1975 . On January 18, 1978 in Narsaq she married the Danish teacher Frank Vraa (* 1952), son of the carpenter Christian Laursen Nyskov Vraa and his wife Eleonora Kirstine Christensen. Their children are daughter Aka Lund (* 1968) and son Milan Vraa (* 1979). From 1986 to 1987 she received further training at the Danish Teachers' College and was taught by Karin Nathorst Westfeldt on the side .

Kiistat Lund first exhibited her art in 1974. Since then she has had solo and group exhibitions all over Scandinavia, North America, Germany and Japan. She worked with graphics , oil paintings , watercolors , pastels , paper cutting , reliefs and tapestries . She gave the American Georgia O'Keeffe as a model . Mostly she painted simplified but expressive landscapes. Later she also created abstract paintings. Her works hang in numerous public buildings in Greenland. In addition, he created the decoration works for, for example, the Thule Air Base or the government building, designed postage stamps and illustrated books.

In 1989 she was awarded the Greenland Culture Prize , among others . In 1997 she was made a knight of the Dannebrog Order. She was also a member of several Greenlandic cultural associations and committees. Kiistat Lund died in Qaqortoq hospital in early 2017 at the age of 72.

Works (selection)

  • 1977: Bjergmassiv (oil pastel )
  • 1982: Grønlandsk fodbold (metal relief)
  • 1984: Elv mellem klipper (web template)
  • 1985: Two triptychs (oil painting)
  • 1986: Den giftsyge ravn, Den første flyver, Ørnen og hvalen, Om manden, der skaffede et forspand af ræve (Schnerenschnitte)
  • 1986: Bjerge (triptych)
  • 1986: Hvordan tågen bliver til
  • 1987: Bjergkæde med sne
  • 1988: Edderfugl og Måger (collages)
  • 1988/89: Sagnet om nordlyset (wood relief)
  • 1988/89: Havets Rigdom (wooden sculpture)
  • 1989: Forår (tapestry)
  • 1989: Illerfissalik, Fåreholderstedet (triptych)
  • 1992: Fjeldvægge

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography in the Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
  2. ↑ a b Kunstneren Kîstat Lund er død in Sermitsiaq
  3. ↑ Church registers Qaqortoq 1916–1927 (Born girls p. 42)
  4. ↑ a b biography in Weilbach's artist lexicon
  5. ↑ Kîstat Lund on the Nuuk Art Museum website
  6. ↑ Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 49 .
personal data
SURNAME Lund, Kiistat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lund, Kîstat (old spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ammassivik
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2017
Place of death Qaqortoq