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Шаблон:More citations needed Шаблон:Infobox artist Gerda Madvig (April 14, 1868[1] – September 10, 1940) was a Danish sculptress and painter.[2]

Biography

Gerda Madvig was born Gerda Heyman in Copenhagen to the Jewish-Danish industrialist and etatsråd Philip Wulff Heyman,Шаблон: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

Шаблон:Unreferenced section 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, Шаблон:Lang, and in 1893 Шаблон:Lang. Later, modeled a body-sized figure, called Asra and some busts, among others, one of her sister Jenny, who was married to the painter Georg Seligmann.

Madvig also played music and gave concerts in Paris, where she lived from 1903 until shortly before her death.

Style

Шаблон:Unreferenced section 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 May 16, 1905, in Paris. They had one daughter, art dealer Edith Madvig Fersing.[4]

Death

Madvig died in Charlottenlund, Denmark, in 1940. She is buried at Hellerup Cemetery.

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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

Paintings

  • Fiskehavn i Nordfrankrig (exhibited in 1928)

References