Arild Rosenkrantz - Artist Info

About Arild Rosenkrantz

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    Arild Rosenkrantz was throughout his life a ‘spiritual seeker.’.He reached the peak of his spirituality in 1912 when he met Rudolf Steiner, the creator of ‘Anthroposophy’, the connection of human understanding with the spiritual world.

    Born in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, son of the Danish minister to Italy, Rosenkranz trained at the Academie Julian in Paris and in 1888 he was introduced by his mother to the French writer, art critic and mystic, Joséphin Péladan. In the years 1892–1895 he exhibited at Péladan's Symbolist Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris.

    Joséphin Péladan had set about bringing together all the young Symbolistes painters in Europe and his speech at the launch of the Salon in 1892, declared: Artists who bel...

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