Else Alfelt : 1910 - 1974

'Marsfjell'  - 1946

Marsfjell 3/9-46
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

About other Cobra artists
Piere Alechinsky
Else Alfelt
Karel Appel
Mogens Balle
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

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