During his lifetime, Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) painted many works portraying women from the world of history and literature. What happens when the image is turned...
Kristian Zahrtmann’s (1843-1917) works allow the viewer to revel in male beauty – the paintings give generous opportunities to ogle men and their charms. Zahrtmann...
First published in Danish in Periskop. Forum for kunsthistorisk debat, 4, 1995, pp. 43-63
Five articles on Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917) as a queer artist.
How is our perception of an art work when pigments or colourants fade or unknowingly have disappeared? Will the eye compensate for this irreversible loss...
European countries have been criticised for perpetuating colonial ways of thinking and white supremacy. This article asks: can contemporary art help us ‘decolonialise’ and rethink...
Skovgaard drew throughout his life and mastered a range of different drawing techniques. Aiming for wide-ranging insight into Skovgaard's use of drawing this article considers...
What is the connection between a single image and the series that includes it? By using Kandinsky’s Small Worlds as an example this article investigates...
The idea of having a central collection of Danish drawings first arose back in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the earliest overtures...
Can Girolamo Troppa’s series be regarded as a visualisation of divine inspiration? And who are the four ‘philosophers’? The article discusses these questions, but also...
How closely connected was Storm P. to the German nationalist movements in the 1930s and 1940s – was he a Nazi sympathiser? The article delves...
Knud Pedersen came up with ideas and always realised them in the same distinctive way: one step at a time. His Systembolaget project began as...
