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Name
  
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen

Role
  
Writer

Died
  
1957, Halmstad, Sweden


Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Vilhelm BjerkePetersen quotThe Horrors of Warquot 1945 oil on

Education
  
Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts

Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen (December 24, 1909 - September 13, 1957) was a Danish painter, writer and art theorist.

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Life

Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen Surrealist Abstract painter TuttArt

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.

Books

Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Vilhelm BjerkePetersen Works on Sale at Auction Biography

  • Symboler i abstract kunst (Symbols in Abstract Art), 1933
  • Surrealismen (Surrealism), 1934
  • Mindernes virksomhed

    • Paintings

    Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Vilhelm BjerkePetersen Bukowskis

  • Le Monstre dans la femme appartient a la nuit
  • L'actrice, 1935
  • Fille du soleil, 1946

    • Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen Odense City Museums

    References

    Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Wikipedia
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