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Hals,
Frans
(1580-1666). Dutch
painter born in Antwerp, Belgium. His parents had left
the southern Netherlands because they were Protestants
and had settled in the Dutch city of Haarlem.
Hals supposed to be apprentice to the Dutch painter
Karel van Mander. His art was influenced by the
contemporary Flemish painter Peter
Paul Rubens,
and the elder Italian painter Caravaggio's
realism and his concentration on the dramatic
moment.
Hals was the leading painter in 17th century Haarlem,
he painted some scenes of everyday life, but first and
foremost individual portraits and group portraits such
as civic guards, lodges and guilds.
Many of his works can be admired in the Frans Hals
Museum in Haarlem, among these large format group
portraits: Banquet of the Officers of the St George
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Banquet of the Officers of the St
George Civic Guard Company, 1627. Officers and
Sergeants of the St Hadrian Civic Guard, 1633.
Officers and Sergeants of the St George Civic Guard
Company, 1639. Regents of the St Elizabeth
Hospital of Haarlem, 1641. The renowned Group
Portraits of paupers: Regents of the Old Men's
Almshouse, 1664. Regentesses of the Old Men's
Almshouse, 1664.
In his old age, he lived on charity given by the municipal
almshouse, whose board of governors he painted. (Baroque)
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Detail of "Banquet
of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard"
1616
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"The
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c. 1628-1630
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Hammershoei,
Vilhelm (1864-1916).
Danish painter with international reputation -
interiors, portraits/figures (e.g. psychologically probing portraits of
his wife Ida), architecture renditions
and
landscapes. At The
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen he
was apprenticed under Frederik
Vermehren and later P.S. Kroeyer. In 1891 he was co-founder
of The
Free Exhibition. He made his official debut as an artist
in 1885 at Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, with "Portrait
of a Young
Girl. The Artists Sister Anna Hammershoei". In 1887 he visited the Netherlands
studying the Dutch painters of the 17th century, he also traveled in
Belgium, Germany, Italy, France and England.
His simple and quiet
interior paintings, particularly depictions of the interior of his home
in Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, where he lived from the late 1890s, were
characterized by black, white, gray and bluish nuances. He
was fascinated with the use of grisaille (a style of painting in gray
tints), a technique employed by several leading artists of the time,
including
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whom he admired. Hammershoei
had been referred to as "The Danish Vermeer"
- they both described contemporary interiors. (Realism)
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Hein, Piet (1905-1996). Danish
Multiartist,
scientist, poet and philosopher. Hein was born in
Copenhagen, and he died in his home on the Danish island of
Funen.
He studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the
University of Copenhagen (today Niels Bohr Institute), and
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Technical University of Denmark. In 1972 Yale
University awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Hein was the inventor of the harmonic geometrical figure,
the super ellipse, which solved the double contrast between
the circle and the square and that of the ellipse and the
rectangle. The super ellipse was used in urban planning in
e.g. Sweden, France, Canada, Japan, and in 1968 the super
ellipse was used in the design of Mexico City Olympic
Stadium.
Piet Hein was as furniture designer known for e.g. his super
ellipse table tops. In three dimensions the super ellipse
became the super egg, used as an effective stress
reducer. Hein also invented the Soma Cube
- a puzzle cube.
As a poet, using the pseudonym Kumbel, he wrote Grooks -
epigrams.
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"Great
Danes" was issued on November 8, 2007.
Designed by Torben Skov and engraved
by Lars Sjoeblom.
The series consist of 4 stamps:
4.74
kr. PH's lamp "Koglen",
1957, produced by Louis Poulsen. See
PH.
6.00
kr. Victor Borge (1909-2000).
Danish-American pianist and entertainer.
From 1940 until his dead he stayed
in the USA. In 1942 the American
press appointed him "The best new
radio performer of the year".
7,25
kr. Arne Jacobsen's "Egg Chair",
1958. designed for
Royal Hotel, today SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen. See
Arne Jacobsen
8,25
kr. Piet Hein's "Superegg".
Inventor and Multitalented Artist. See Marselisborg
Palace, Aarhus Denmark.
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Hindsbo,
Sys
(Nina Bodil) (1944). Danish draughtsman, painter and graphics artist.
She was born in Copenhagen. Her interest in drawing and modelling
goes back to her early childhood. From 1962-65 she studied at the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Sculpture, under the
sculptor Gottfred Eickhoff, during the period she decided to become a graphics artist, and
from 1965-69 she studied at the Copenhagen Technical School under
the painter and graphics artist Holger Jens Sophus Jensen - she
spent her spare time at "The Secret Academy", where she
met the painters and graphics artists Svend Viig Hansen, Hjorth-Nielsen, Dan
Sterup and Palle Nielsen.
The characterizing features of her art: a fascination with the
human figure, represented in sketch-like drawings in an often classisistic style,
where men are heroes - she is interested in human proportions and
motions, she emphasizes the physical appearance, the contact
between the persons are often absent-minded and physical, the
persons are faceless. Hindsbo uses primarily the gray tone scale
and a few delicate colours. The same figure is repeated several
times - a continuity has been created. The elements in her
pictures are recognizable, the sceneries are not plain sailing.
There is a distance in Hindsbo pictures, they often exist in a
borderland between the sad and the depressive - her pictures are
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"Carrying
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Hundertwasser,
Friedensreich
(born
1928 in Vienna as Friedrich
Stowasser - died 2000 in New Zealand).
Austrian painter, architect and designer
of e.g. stamps, telephone cards, flags
and coins -
he became an ecologist before the word ecology became widely
known, and he fought for a life
in harmony with nature.
Hundertwasser had a strong personal style influenced by Surrealism and characterized
by maze-like ornamentation. As architect he created imaginative organic
buildings.
He studied arts for three month at Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts in 1948 - his
only artistic training.
In
1949 he traveled in Northern Italy, Rome, Tuscany one of Italy's regions, Naples, Sicily
and Florence, where he met the French painter René Brô, whom he followed to Paris.
Hundertwasser developed his own style and adopted the name
Friedensreich
Hundertwasser. He
painted two murals together with Brô in Saint Mandé, France. His
fascination with the spiral developed from 1953, and soon thereafter he
developed the theory of 'transautomatism', which was based on Surrealist
automatism. In
1954 he exhibited for the first time in Paris at Studio Paul Facchetti.
In 1959, together with
Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer, he founded "Pintorarium",
an academy of all branches of art. Hundertwasser was the first European painter, who got his works cut in
wood by Japanese masters.
In 1961 a retrospective exhibition of his
works was held at the Venice Biennale.
Hundertwasser House, 1983-1986 - is a residential property,
a multicolored adventure house designed by a painter - a house with columns, domes,
tile-mosaics and horizontal colourful areas dividing the storeys -
half-round or rectangular window forms are encircled by
mosaics.
Hundertwasser felt that standard architecture could not be called
art, and declared that the design of any building should be influenced by
the aesthetics of its tenants.
From
1999 he lived at worked in New Zealand. His works have been
exhibited worldwide.
In The Kunst Haus Wien (Art House Vienna) is a permanent Hundertwasser
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