Rita Kernn-Larsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish painter
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Place of Birth: Hillerød, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Rita Kernn-Larsen
- Rita Kernn-Larsen (1 January 1904 – 10 April 1998) was a Danish surrealist painter.
- She was born to a wealthy family in Hillerød, and attended the private Marie Mørks School there.
- She began to paint at a young age, and after spending time abroad in Oslo, Norway, she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to fine-tune her craft, but found the teachings there to be too traditional.
- Instead, she moved to Paris and joined Fernand LĂ©ger's academy, studying under him until 1933, when she returned to Denmark and opened up her own studio.Throughout the 1930s, Kernn-Larsen's style moved from a more decorative style to surrealism.
- She regularly attended exhibitions as one of the only female surreal artists, including the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936.
- In 1937, Kernn-Larsen moved back to Paris and met Peggy Guggenheim, who opened a solo exhibition for her the following year in London.
- She remained in London throughout the war years with her husband, Jewish art dealer Isak GrĂĽnberg.
- At that time she departed from surrealism, focusing on a more real approach to her paintings during the war.After the war, Kernn-Larsen moved to Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France, using the Southern French landscape as a motif for her later paintings.
- She lived there from 1947 to 1992, and while there worked with ceramics, and published a children's book, The Golden Village.
- She continued to attend exhibitions primarily in Denmark, with her last one being a retrospective in 1995 at Randers Art Museum.
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