'Marsfjell' - 1946
Else Alfelt 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.
In the game of the colours you find some exciting lightness; in the fabric
you find a delicate modulation.
Green and blue and yellow may be a dream of
summer, endless fields, sparkling yellow, green and blue. Light grey , dark
grey, soft as fog, hard as a rock, the life of the city in a universal sense.
Lines interlaced vigoursly criss cross sometimes taking shape of a phantom.
The pictures contains often a few main colours, but endless nuanced. It is
not a blow in a thrumpet, that wakes us up; but absorption is demanded from us
in a sensitive and rich nuanced world of colours. In her fantasy her expression
is without chains, free, light and female.
Egill Jacobsen - Helhesten 1943.
Else Alfelt 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. Now she has
her own museum opened in 1976 next to 'Herning Kunstmuseum' named after herself,
and Carl-Henning Pedersen.
Carl-Henning Pedersen og
Else Alfelts Museum
Else Alfelt on Wikipeda
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Karel Appel
Mogens
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Ejler Bille
Corneille
Christian Dotremont
Sonja
Ferlov
Stephen Gilbert
Svavar
Gudnason
Henry Heerup
C. O.
Hultén
Egill Jacobsen
Asger Jorn
Erik
Ortvad
Carl-Henning Petersen
Max Walter
Svanberg
Anders Österlin