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1881 Copenhagen, Denmark - 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark. Known for: Modernist portrait, football scenes, ballet and landscape painting.
Harald Giersing, a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism* movement in Denmark around 1910-1920. He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists... Read full biography
Harald Giersing, a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism* movement in Denmark around 1910-1920. He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists both for his portraits and landscapes. Giersing, who died at the early age of 45, was driven by a... Read full biography
Harald Giersing, a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism* movement in Denmark around 1910-1920. He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists both for his portraits and landscapes. Giersing, who died at the early age of 45, was driven by a desire to concentrate on change and beauty. Unable to find support in religion, he adopted modernism as an existential approach as to how art could fill the void for those without faith in God. While... Read full biography
Harald Giersing, a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism* movement in Denmark around 1910-1920. He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists both for his portraits and landscapes. Giersing, who died at the early age of 45, was driven by a desire to concentrate on change and beauty. Unable to find support in religion, he adopted modernism as an existential approach as to how art could fill the void for those without faith in God. While some synergies with the work of Vilhelm Lundstrøm can be detected, he differed from contemporaries such as Niels Larsen Stevns, Sigurd Swane and Edvard Weie in that he sought to represent images just as he had seen them, almost in the form of... Read full biography
Harald Giersing, a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism* movement in Denmark around 1910-1920. He is remembered as one of Denmark's most important 20th-century artists both for his portraits and landscapes. Giersing, who died at the early age of 45, was driven by a desire to concentrate on change and beauty. Unable to find support in religion, he adopted modernism as an existential approach as to how art could fill the void for those without faith in God. While some synergies with the work of Vilhelm Lundstrøm can be detected, he differed from contemporaries such as Niels Larsen Stevns, Sigurd Swane and Edvard Weie in that he sought to represent images just as he had seen them, almost in the form of photographs. When he arrived in Paris in 1906, he was immediately taken by Gauguin but within a year it was Edouard Manet who became his id... Read full biography
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- •U.S. Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, 1912-1913