In her tireless pursuit of grand experiences of nature, ElseAlfelt traveled much of the globe, from Greece in the south, to Lapland in the north, and from the United States in the west to Japan in the east.
ElseAlfelt is usually described as a spontaneous-abstract painter, but this designation fails to do justice to her highly structured, deliberate way of working.
Alfelt was one of the two female members of the Cobra group (the other being Helge Jacobson).
Composed of Nezval's epic title poem and six superbly evocative original lithographs by Styrsky, which prefigure his Surrealist efforts of the 1930's, and underscore the 'Artificialist' credo: 'Artificialism is the assimilation of the painter and the poet' (Styrsky/Toyen, 1926).
Conceived after and in stark contrast to the contents of the long-lived right-wing 'De Telegraff', inclusive of a reprint of an anti-semetic slanted article of 1942 (and a statement as to the continuity of such editorial views to date), a Provo manifest with antithetical headline, and unattributed articles on activism and gay rights.
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ElseAlfelt has a distinct realistic sense of colours, no outer side effects disturbs her in painting what matters; she expresses her experiences from the lyric to the dramatic, always concordant to the living.
ElseAlfelt was also the person learning Carl-Henning Pedersen to paint, when she was away he borrowed her palette and brush, as they barely had room in their apartment for 2 persons painting at the same time.
Her paintings are full of mountains, ice, and the moon, she has also made a lot of mosaics.
The Carl-Henning Pedersen and ElseAlfelt Museum was inaugurated in 1976 as one of the relatively few "artist’s museums" in Denmark.
In 1992-93, an extension was added to the Carl-Henning Pedersen and ElseAlfelt Museum.
The circular main building and the painted ceramic decorations evoke Carl-Henning Pedersen’s fantastic fairy-tale universe, while the prism is a monumental symbol of ElseAlfelt’s love of soaring thoughts and stringent forms.
Exhibition with paintings by the Danish COBRA artists ElseAlfelt and Carl-Henning Pedersen from their half year visit to Iceland in 1948.
Carl-Henning Pedersen and ElseAlfelt Museum, Herning, Denmark 7.
The exhibition comprises 23 sculptures by Sigurjón Ólafsson from different periods, representing a broad scale of styles and materials, ranging from granite, wood and plaster to various types of metal.
At the High School he met ElseAlfelt who introduced him to painting.
The couple was married the following year, and in 1936 they both had their debut as painters at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (The Artists’ Fall Exhibition) in Copenhagen: Carl-Henning Pedersen with four abstract paintings and ElseAlfelt with two naturalistic paintings.
HØJSOMMER på Carl-Henning Pedersen og ElseAlfelts Museum
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But the typical Cobra style of painting culminated only after the international group had been formally disbanded in 1951.
Among the most important Danish artists were Egill Jacobsen, Carl-Henning Pedersen and ElseAlfelt.
Others such as Ejler Bille and Erik Thommesen were further away in relation to Cobra and distanced themselves from the international aims of the movement.
Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/66.87.14.12866.87.14.128]] to last version by D6 '''ElseAlfelt''' ([[September 16]], [[1910]] - [[August 9]], [[1974]]) was a painter who was born and died in [[Copenhagen]].
She sent art pieces to the yearly show of Danish artists (Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling) beginning in 1929, but was not accepted there until 1936 displaying two [[naturalismnaturalistic]] portraits.
