Ordinary Finds

Svend Wiig Hansen (Dec. 20, 1922 - 1997) was a Danish artist, best known for his sculptures which appeared controversial for a Danish audience in the 1950s.

Ingvar Cronhammar (Dec. 17, 1947 - 2021) was a Swedish-born Danish installation artist whose work often was monumental and borrowing from an industrial aesthetics.

Here is a more practical design of his - plates and forks for a Danish restaurant, Æ Hereford Beefstouw:

Egill Jacobsen (Dec. 16, 1910 - 1998) was a Danish painter known for his repetitive use of masks in his art. He was a neo-primitivist and a wild expressionist/colorist. Over time he was associated with CoBrA, the Corner group and the Fall Exhibition in Copenhagen (Høstudstillingen). Later he shifted to Grønningen and became part of the mainstream of Danish art, ending up a Professor at the Academy where he had studied in the early 1930s.

Harald Moltke (Dec. 14, 1871 - 1960) was a Danish Count, who painted and wrote about the lands and peoples he visited on multiple expeditions to the Arctic around 1900. He was particularly fascinated by the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis.

Dorte Dahlin (b. Dec. 13, 1955) is a Danish artist, trained at the Royal Academy and at first associated with the 1980s Unge Vilde painters. She has created a number of public works and sculptures as well.

J.A. Jerichau (Dec. 12, 1890 - 1916) was a young Danish genius of a painter, trained at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, after which he departed for Paris where he was meeting and learning from all the great contemporary Modernists, including Matisse and Picasso who invited him on a trip to Brittany where they would have collaborated. Alas, this never happened, because in 1916 Jerichau shot himself, cutting off a very promising career as a visionary artist.

Harald Böhling-Petersen (Nov. 30, 1939 - 2001) was an autodidact Danish artist. He painted plant forms as abstractions until the 1980s when he turned to more representational landscape pictures.

Erik H. Olson (Nov. 29, 1909 - 1995) was an autodidact Swedish artist. His main body of works consists of sculptures such as this one, drawing on a constructivist idiom, but playing with light and color. His work is found at the Tate Gallery in London and MoMA in New York, as well as major Swedish museums.

Christian Martin Tegner (Nov. 28, 1803 - 1881) was a Danish painter and lithographer who lived for many years in Trondheim, Norway. He ran a so-called “Cosmorama” in his apartment where one could view dramatic tableaus through little peep holes.

Tegner had studied at the Academy in Copenhagen under J.L. Lund, and was the first person to start a lithography workshop in Norway.

Caja Prytz (November 27, 1877 - 1916) was a Danish painter who had studied with Julius Paulsen and Otto Haslund, as well as attending a private academy in Paris. Prytz painted portraits, interiors and landscapes from Danmark and Italien.

Peter Martensen (b. Nov. 26, 1953) is a Danish portrait painter and artist providing a postmodern commentary on current culture. He trained at Det Fynske Kunstakademi and The Royal Academy in the 1970s and 80s.

Eric Hallström (Nov. 22, 1891 - 1984) was a Swedish artist. He was associated with the Naïvist movement in the 1910s and 20s, but his art developed into a more Expressionist form of realism, as shown in the portrait of a young sports fan. Hallström ws a member of the group Färg och Form and is represented in all major Swedish museums.

VIlhelm Tetens (Nov. 21, 1871 - 1957) was a Danish painter who specialized in portraits, often with a Symbolist tendency. He was Academy trained, but also studied with Zahrtmann.

Gudrun Lorenzen (Nov. 20, 1904 - 1968) was a Danish artist who trained at the Royal Academy in the 1920s and ‘30s. She mainly did landscapes, but later in life became the head of the croquis school, affiliated with the academy. She also did a few portraits, although they were nearly lost, before getting donate to Vejen Kunstmuseum where many of her Academy professor, Ejnar Nielsen's, works were already housed.

Jack Kampmann (Nov. 19, 1914 - 1989) was an English-born Danish artist. He trained at the Royal Academy in the 1930s, but when WWII broke out he went back to Britain and served in the SOE. He was stationed on the Faeroe Isles during the War, and afterwards returned to live there with his wife. His best art is landscape scenes from the islands.

Axel Salto (November 17, 1889 - 1961) was a Danish artist, specializing in woodcuts and lithography. He trained at the Royal Academy, and later founded a journal, Klingen, as well as an artists' group, De Fire, with Vilhelm Lundstrøm, among others.

Adolf Säfve (Nov. 16, 1860 - 1922) was a largely autodidact Swedish artist. He did study briefly at Valands Målarskola in Gothenburg, and most of his art is centered around city scapes from there.