Henriette Marie Antonette Luplau (September 7, 1848 – August 16, 1925) was a Danish artist and educator, active in the women's movement. She conducted an art school for women in

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with her partner, artist Emilie Mundt.

Early life and education

Marie Luplau was born in

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on the

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, the daughter of Daniel Carl Erhard Luplau, a village pastor, and

Line Luplau Line Luplau (1823–1891) was a Danish feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (Danish Women's Society Suffrage Union) and first chairperson in 1889–1891. Life Line Luplau was born ...

, a feminist newspaper publisher and suffragist. She studied art with Vilhelm Kyhn, one of the few instructors in Copenhagen who was willing to accept female students.Barbara Sjoholm
"What We Want: The Art of Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt"
''Feminist Studies'' 35(3)(Fall 2009): 549-572. She spent several years pursuing further studies in Munich, and moved to Paris to study at the

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there. In 1875, with support from the Danish Women's Association (DK), Luplau and five other women artists submitted applications to study at the Art Academy of Denmark; they were rejected not based on the quality of their work, but because the institution did not accept female students.

Career

In 1886, Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt founded an art school in their home in Copenhagen, to prepare women for admission to the Art Academy's programs when they opened to women in 1888. The school operated until 1913. The school was located at

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136-38 in

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. The building was owned by Albert Nicolai Schioldann. Among their notable students were

Emilie Demant Hatt Emilie Demant Hatt (sometimes Emilie Demant-Hatt, or Emilie Demant; née Emilie Demant Hansen) (21 January 1873 – 4 December 1958) was a Danish artist, writer, ethnographer, and folklorist. Her area of interest and expertise was the culture ...

, Astrid Valborg Holm, and

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. She also wrote about women's health, bicycles and dress reform, all themes addressed in Luplau's 1894 essay "On Cycling for Women" ("Om Cykling for Damer"). Marie Luplau's 1917 painting of her mother and other early Danish feminists, "In the Early Days of the Women's Suffrage Campaign," hung for many years in the Danish Parliament building. The Women's Museum in Aarhus hosted a show of Luplau and Mundt's works in 2007."Symbiose af liv og kunst"
Kvindemuseet Denmark, August 30-December 30, 2007.

Personal life

Marie Luplau met Emilie Mundt when they were both students of Vilhelm Kyhn. They lived and worked together for the rest of their lives, and in 1891 adopted a daughter, Carla Mundt-Luplau. Luplau was considered "mannish" in her appearance and habits, wearing short-cropped hair and tailored clothing, riding a bicycle and smoking cigars. Marie Luplau died in 1925, age 76, three years after Emilie Mundt's death in 1922. The couple's graves are in

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in Copenhagen.

Gallery

File:Luplau-Bois-Amour-1883.jpg, ''Le Bois d'Amour'' (1883) File:Marie Luplau Paysage d'été près de Frederiksvaerk.png, ''Summer Landscape Close to Frederiksvaerk'' File:Marie Luplau Symbolistisk Gadeparti 1898.jpg, ''Symbolist Street Scene'' (1898) File:Marie Luplau - Markparti med figur - 1896.png, ''Landscape with woman walking'' (1997)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Luplau, Marie 1848 births 1925 deaths 19th-century Danish painters 20th-century Danish painters Danish feminists People from Varde Municipality Académie Colarossi alumni Women's education in Denmark