Carl-Henning Pedersen

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Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum in Birk outside Herning, Denmark

Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913 – 20 February 2007) was a

COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th century.[1]

Biography

The apse in Ribe Cathedral (Denmark) decorated by Carl-Henning Pedersen.
In Denmark, this work initiated contemporary decorations in old churches, but also stirred great controversy.

Pedersen was born in

cubists and of Paul Klee
.

Pedersen travelled on foot to

Nazi occupation of Denmark, writing about medieval Danish murals for its journal, Helhesten, and continued to produce seditiously
modern abstract works.

He and his wife were amongst the founding members of the CoBrA movement in 1948. The movement took its name from the European cities where its founders were based:

Guggenheim Award in 1958. A retrospective was put on at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1961, and he was Denmark's representative at the Venice Biennale in 1962. He won the Thorvaldsen Medal
in 1963.

Pedersen moved into monumental art in the 1960s and 1970s, producing a large

Copenhagen University, and a huge tiled wall decoration, "Fantasy Play Around the Wheel of Life", for the Angli courtyard in Herning
for example.

Else Alfelt died in 1974, and Pedersen moved to

Burgundy in the 1980s, although most of his work still came from Danish sources. He surprised many when he worked on the redecoration of the Gothic cathedral in Ribe, working on the murals, painted glass and mosaics to illustrate Bible
stories from 1983 to 1987. He also produced bronze sculptures, and works in oils and watercolour.

Pedersendied in Copenhagen, after a long illness. He was survived by his second wife, Sidsel Ramson.

The museum

Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum in Birk outside Herning, Denmark. The museum was designed by C.F. Møller (1898-1988) in 1976. Notorious for resisting selling his works, Pedersen donated thousands to the Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt Museum. The museum houses a collection of the artist couple Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt's paintings, watercolors, sculptures, mosaics.

Literature

  • Astrid Heise-Fjeldgren and Sylvie Poignet (2004): Carl-Henning Pedersen, Akvareller og tegninger, tekster og digte Borgen,
    ISBN 87-21-02141-4
    . Edited by CHPs second wife Sidsel Ramson. (in Danish)

References

  1. ^ "Carl-Henning Pedersen". Kunstindeks Danmark/Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

Other sources

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