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Karl Larsen: Setup on table. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
Karl Larsen was a Danish artist who was part of the artist group The Four together with Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Svend Johansen, and Axel Salto. The group was founded in 1921 and they took mutual inspiration from each other, exhibited together in Denmark in different connections, and had a general work community. Karl Larsen was primarily a painter, but he also did sculpture, drawing, watercolor, and mosaic and let the different mediums emboss each other. Since he lived from 1897 till 1977, his artistic practice was colored by many different artistic styles and directions that flowed through the 20th century. Thus, he debuted at an early age at the Artists’ Fall Exhibition in 1917. The work he presented was cubist and with several art historic inspirations and motives. From cubism, he moved on to a
more expressive style with thick layers of paint but in several circumstances, he kept the cubist way of distorting motive and space.
Karl Larsen (1897-1977, DK) was taught in painting by August Tørsleff and since then a student at The Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen where he graduated in 1929. For many years, he lived in France and Italy, but he had
a great exhibition practice in Denmark. For several years in a row, he participated at The Artists’ Fall Exhibition and Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition. In addi-tion, he exhibited at The Free Exhibition, DK; Brooklyn Museum, US; The Artists’ House, N; The National Gallery of Art, DK; Galerie Birch, DK. Karl Larsen received the Eckersberg Medal, a great honor for Danish artistsWürth. In 2010, Hein received the National Arts Foundation’s 3-year work grant.
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