Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen (December 24, 1909 – September 13, 1957) was a Danish painter, writer, and art theorist.
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Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen
Francesco Bini · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1909 · Frederiksberg.
- Died
- 1957 · Halmstad.
- Nationality
- Sweden · Kingdom of Denmark · Norway
- Occupation
- painter · designer · writer · ceramicist
- Education
- Bauhaus · Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts
- Teachers
- William Scharff · Harald Giersing · Peter Rostrup Bøyesen · Axel Revold
- Languages
- Swedish
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Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen studied at Bauhaus and Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts. Training under William Scharff, Harald Giersing and Peter Rostrup Bøyesen is recorded. Albert Johansson, Roy Lindqvist and Jack Ström are recorded as having studied under Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen. The recorded working language is Swedish. Work by Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Israel Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst and National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
Born in Copenhagen, he studied under Axel Revold at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1927 to 1929, and then under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at Bauhaus Dessau from 1930 to 1931. He was a Surrealist painter, and agitated for the style in several publications. He influenced several painters, including Karen Holtsmark, Bjarne Rise and Johannes Rian. He lived in Sweden from 1944. He died of heart disease at the hospital in Halmstad, Sweden in 1957 at the age of 47.
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Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen lived from 24 December 1909 to 13 September 1957 and was a designer, writer, critic, painter and sculptor. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen was born on 24 December 1909 and died on 13 September 1957 in Halmstad. The birthplace of Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen is recorded as København by the Getty Union List of Artist Names and as Frederiksberg by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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1909
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen born at Frederiksberg.
1957
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen died at Halmstad.
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Frederiksberg.
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Books
• Symboler i abstract kunst (Symbols in Abstract Art), 1933 • Surrealismen (Surrealism), 1934 • Mindernes virksomhed
Paintings
• Le Monstre dans la femme appartient a la nuit • L'actrice, 1935 • Kærlighedens vegetative triumf, 1943 • Fille du soleil, 1946
Paintings in Statens Museum for Kunst
Francesco Bini
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