Else Alfelt

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Danish artist (1910-1974)

ArtistsLived 1910 to 1974 · aged 63

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Else Alfelt was a Danish artist who specialized in abstract paintings, and a member of the avant-garde COBRA movement - one of its only two female members.

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'Carl Henning Pedersen og Else Alfelts Museum' outside the Danish town of Herning.

Awards 1

1973Thorvaldsen Medal

In their orbit 1

SpouseCarl-Henning Pedersen

Connected to Else 5

Laurits Andersen RingAlso won Thorvaldsen Medal

Martinus RørbyeAlso won Thorvaldsen Medal

Anne Marie Carl-NielsenAlso won Thorvaldsen Medal

Robert JacobsenAlso won Thorvaldsen Medal

Wilhelm FreddieAlso won Thorvaldsen Medal

Artists born in the 1910s 1

Emérico Weisz46.7

About this person

Else Alfelt was a Danish artist who specialized in abstract paintings, and a member of the avant-garde COBRA movement - one of its only two female members. Alfelt was involved with the major avant-garde art movements in Denmark from the 1930s through the 1950s, working in an abstract idiom of colorful prismatic compositions. She was married to Carl-Henning Pedersen, another prominent CoBrA member.

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