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Christine's Picture Book
''Christine's Picture Book'' () is one of three famous scrapbooks created in part by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Biography Hans Christian Andersen was a friend of the Danish Baron Henrik Stampe (b. 1821) and his wife Jonna Drewsen (b. 1827), as well as of Jonna's father, Adolph Drewson. He became godfather to their daughter Christine (30 October 1856 – 9 March 1884), who had been named for her paternal grandmother Christine Stampe (née Dalgas). Together, Andersen and Adolph Drewsen compiled a scrapbook for Christine's third birthday in 1859. Its 122 pages contain over 1,000 pasted-in pictures, in some cases accompanied by hand-written captions or poems. There are also a few paper cuts, an art form at which Andersen was adept. The images were collected from all kinds of European publications, and the result offers a unique pictorial snapshot of European culture of the 1850s. Similar books exist for Christine's sisters Astrid, who became a women's rights activis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogue (literature), travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western culture, Western collective consciousness, accessible to children as well as presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers., p. 388 His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale (fairy tale), The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes (fairy tale), The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina." Andersen's stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. Early life Andersen was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Stampe
Christine Stampe, ''née'' Dalgas (20 April 1797 – 5 May 1868), was a Danish noblewoman known as one of the chief benefactors of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Biography Christine Marguerite Salome Dalgas married Baron Henrik Stampe (b. 1795). They had two sons, and her granddaughter Astrid became a women's rights activist. After their marriage, the Stampes initially lived at Christinelund, a farm belonging to Nysø Manor on the island of Zealand. Christinelund, which Henrik named for his wife, is now on the Danish registry of protected buildings. A few years later, they moved into the main house on Nysø Manor, where they hosted many notable Danish artists and writers, including the writer Hans Christian Andersen and the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Christine became a close friend of Thorvaldsen, who resided at Nysø for most of the last six years of his life. She supported his work and helped to collect the funds to build the Thorvaldsen Museum The Thorvaldsen M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papercutting
Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs that has evolved all over the world to adapt to different cultural styles. One traditional distinction most styles share is that the designs are cut from a single sheet of paper as opposed to multiple adjoining sheets as in collage. History Paper-cut art appeared during the Jin dynasty in 4th century AD, after the Chinese official Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD. The oldest surviving paper cutout is a symmetrical circle from the 6th-century Six Dynasties period, found in Xinjiang, China.Needham, Joseph. Chemistry and Chemical Technology. [1974] (1974). Cambridge University Press. Papercutting continued to be practiced during the Song dynasty, Song and Tang dynasty, Tang dynasties as a popular form of decorative art. By the eighth or ninth century papercutting appeared in West Asia, in Europe it appeared after the 13th century–even as late as the 16th century (with Swiss and German scherenschnitte [see also sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid Stampe Feddersen
Astrid Stampe Feddersen, usually known as Astrid Stampe, (1852–1930) was a Danish women's rights activist and author alongside her sister Rigmor Stampe Bendix. Stampe joined the women's movement early on and from 1883 to 1887, she was on the board of the Danish Women's Society, playing an active part in work on women's issues. As an activist, Stampe authored several pamphlets in support of her cause, including: ''Kvindesagen'' (1886) and ''Kan Kvindesagen og Sædelighedssagen skilles ad?'' (1888). Early life and education Born on 19 December 1852 at Christinelund near Vordingborg, Stampe was of noble ancestry. She was the daughter of Henrik Stampe (1821–1892), a Chamberlain and Hofjægermester. Because of her father's rank, she was born with the title of baroness. Other family member of note include her grandmother, Christine Stampe, and her great-grandfather, Jonas Collin, who was Hans Christian Andersen's fatherly benefactor. Stampe's personal tutors, her upbringing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Rights
Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to Women's suffrage, vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, Right to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigmor Stampe Bendix
Rigmor Stampe Bendix (1850–1923) was a Danish baroness, writer and philanthropist. In 1898, she became editor of ''Kvindernes Blad'' (Women's Paper), a supplement to various daily newspapers, developing it as an organ for the women's movement. She is remembered in Denmark for her biographies of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, ''Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen'' (1912) and of her godfather Hans Christian Andersen, ''H.C. Andersen og hans nærmeste Omgang'' (1918). Early life and education Born at Christinelund near Præstø on 7 December 1850, Rigmor Stampe was the daughter of Baron Henrik Stampe (1821–1892) and Jonna Drewson. Brought up there with her two younger sisters, Astrid and Kristine, she strove to bring social enlightenment to the local country people. After her father acquired Nysø Manor in 1876, she lived there from 1877 to 1879 and built a library for the use of her daughters and the local population. In 1879, with her marriage to the Jewish compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Bendix
Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade. He studied at the conservatory of music at Copenhagen, then newly founded, from 1867 to 1869. He studied piano under August Winding and composition under Niels W. Gade. He visited Germany and other countries abroad; his compositions show the influence of modern German romanticism. He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix. In 1879, he married the writer and philanthropist Baroness Rigmor Stampe Rigmor Stampe Bendix (1850–1923) was a Danish baroness, writer and philanthropist. In 1898, she became editor of ''Kvindernes Blad'' (Women's Paper), a supplement to various daily newspapers, developing it as an organ for the Women in Denmark, w .... Selected works *Symphonies **Symphony no. 1, op. 16, "Fjældstigning" in C major (1882)Smith (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silkeborg Kunstmuseum
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, (formerly Silkeborg Kunstmuseum) is an art museum located by Gudenåen in Silkeborg, Denmark. The museum holds the collections that were developed by Asger Jorn (1914–1973) from the early 1950s until his death in 1973, since when they have doubled in extent. In consequence, the museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of Jorn’s own works but also holds thousands of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by other artists – members of the CoBrA avant-garde art movement and older international artists who inspired Jorn or were kindred artistic spirits including, among others, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger and Man Ray. History and architecture Museum Jorn's history dates back to 1940 when the Silkeborg and Omegn Museum Association made its first acquisitions of art. In 1951, a single room in the local history museum in Silkeborg (Silkeborg Museum) was converted to hold modern art. In 1961 the museum opened an exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Books
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Artists' Books
Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that engage with and transform the form of a book. Some are mass-produced with multiple editions, some are published in small editions, while others are produced as one-of-a-kind objects. There is not a singular definition of an artist's book, and formulating a definition is cumbersome and subject to debate. Importantly, the creation of artists' books incorporates a variety of formats and genres. They have a complex history, with a particular focus and growth in contemporary artist movements. They also have recently grown in popularity, especially in art institutions, and have become popular in art library reference workshops. The exact definition and usage of artists' books has become more fluid and porous alongside the growth in popularity of artists' books. Overview Artists' books have employed a wide range of forms, including the traditional Codex form as well as less common forms like scrolls, fold-outs, conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
