Kasper Jacob Heiberg (3 April 1928 – 27 February 1984) was a Danish painter and sculptor.
Though largely forgotten today, in retrospect Heiberg is considered to have made an important contribution to the development of Danish painting.
Biography
Born in
Kongens Lyngby
Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...
to the north of Copenhagen, Heiberg was the son of the Norwegian-born architect Edvard Heiberg. He studied painting at the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
History
The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Cope ...
under
Vilhelm Lundstrøm
Vilhelm Lundstrøm (26 May 1893 – 9 May 1950) was a Danish modernist painter. He was a central figure in early Danish experimental art and introduced French cubism to Denmark.
Biography
Vilhelm Henry Lundstrøm was born in Copenhagen, Den ...
,
William Scharff
Niels William Scharff (30 October 1886 – 20 September 1959) was a Danish painter, one of the leading proponents of Cubism in Denmark.
Early life
After training as a painter at Copenhagen's Technical School, Scharff attended Kristian Zahrtmann ...
and
Elof Risebye
Elof Christian Risebye (3 April 1892 – 11 July 1961) was a Danish painter. He became known as the "painter of grief" (''sorgens maler'') for his paintings of coffins and corpses in the 1930s.
Biography
Born in the Frederiksberg district of Co ...
from 1948 to 1956.
[ He first exhibited at ]Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling
Den Frie Udstilling ('The Free Exhibition') is a Danish artists' association, founded in 1891 by artists in protest against the admission requirements for the Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Modeled on the Salon des Refusés, it is Denmark's oldest asso ...
(Artists Autumn Exhibition) in 1949. For a time, he created Realistic paintings but soon adopted a more experimental Abstract approach, based on the interrelationship of colours within the work.[
From 1962 to 1969 he lived in Paris where he was inspired by the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), whose works he had seen at the 1963 Biennale. Following the group's attempts to break down the conventions between painting and sculpture, he began to work with colour models allowing the colour to extend beyond the confines of the painting.][
On his return to Denmark in the 1970s, he created a number of coloured three-dimensional works decorating buildings including the Skjoldhøj College in ]Brabrand
Brabrand () is a postal district of Aarhus Municipality, Denmark. South of Brabrand, in the Aarhus river-valley, is the largest recreational area of Aarhus Municipality, comprising the Brabrand Lake and the meadow-lake of Årslev, with surroundi ...
(1975) and Thisted Gymnasium (1978).[
]
Awards
In 1971, Heiberg was awarded the Eckersberg Medal
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting.
The ...
and, in 1983, the Thorvaldsen Medal
The Thorvaldsen Medal (Danish language, Danish: Thorvaldsens Medalje, Thorvaldsen Medaillen) is awarded annually with few exceptions to a varying number of recipients by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is its highest distinction within th ...
.[
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References
Literature
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External links
Illustrated list of Kasper Heiberg's works in Danish museums
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1928 births
1984 deaths
20th-century Danish painters
People from Kongens Lyngby
Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal
Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
20th-century Danish sculptors
Danish male sculptors
Danish male painters
20th-century Danish male artists