Gerda Madvig
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Gerda Madvig | |
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Born | Gerda Heyman 14 April 1868 |
Died | 10 September 1940 | (aged 72)
Nationality | Danish |
Known for | Sculture, painting |
Movement | Realism, Impressionism |
Spouse(s) | Charles William Madvig |
Children | Edith Madvig Fersing |
Gerda Madvig (Copenhagen, April 14, 1868[1] - Charlottenlund, September 10, 1940) was a Danish sculptress and painter.[2]
Biography[]
Gerda Madvig was born Gerda Heyman to the Jewish-Danish industrialist and Philip Wulff Heyman,[citation needed] co-founder of Tuborg Brewery and pioneer of Danish butter and bacon exports, and his wife Hanne Emilie Adler, both Danish Jews with roots in Germany.[3]
Career[]
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Madvig learned to draw with the painter and illustrator Carl Thomsen, and then to model with professor August Saabye, with whom she worked for four to five years. In 1892, she exhibited at the annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition her first piece, En kvinde, and in 1893 Sovende barn. Later, modeled a body-sized figure, called Asra and some busts, among others, one of her sister Jenny, who was married to the painter . Madvig also played music and gave concerts in Paris, where she lived from 1903 until shortly before her death.
Style[]
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Madvig used especially family members as models, but also famous people, both contemporaries, like Professor Julius Petersen, and deceased, such as the composer Frédéric Chopin. As a sculptor, she was a naturalist, while her painting was mostly influenced by French Impressionism.
Personal life[]
She married the painter Charles William Madvig on 16 May, 1905, in Paris. They had one daughter, the art dealer Edith Madvig Fersing.[4]
Death[]
Madvig died in 1940. She is buried at Hellerup Cemetery.
Works[]
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Sculpture[]
- En kvinde ("A woman", 1892)
- Sovende barn ("Sleeping Child", 1893)
- Moderen (relief, 1902-03)
- Asra (figure)
- Dyrestatuetter (bronze)
- La vigilance (bronze, ca. 1937)
- Kristus (1938)
- Statuetter af datteren Edith
Busts[]
- Julius Petersen (plaster, University of Copenhagen )
- Jenny Seligmann, born Heyman
- Hanne Heyman (marble)
- Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (Paris, 1904)
- Frédéric Chopin (1933)
- Roger Garreau
- Charles Madvig
- Pierre d'Arquennes
- Aage Louis Dessau
Paintings[]
- Fiskehavn i Nordfrankrig (exhibited in 1928)
References[]
- ^ Gerda Madvig at Kunstindeks Danmark
- ^ Gerda Madvig. Carlsberg Foundation
- ^ "Book Review". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 55 (1): 71–73. 2007-04-01. doi:10.1080/03585520701233573. ISSN 0358-5522.
- ^ Edith Madvig Fersing. Carlsberg Foundation
- Danish Jews
- 19th-century Danish sculptors
- 19th-century Danish painters
- Burials at Hellerup Cemetery