YOUNG DANISH PRINTMAKERS

Per Baagøe, b.1946

Pia Schutzmann, b.1940

Hanne Sejrbo Nielsen, b.1950

Sys Hindsbo, b.1944

Poul Skov Sørensen, b.1951

In modern Danish printmaking, non-commercial prints based on traditional methods play a strong role. Since its foundation in the 1920s, the Graphic School at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts has trained most of Denmark’s best graphic artists. In the 1930s, a large and important generation of artists, Hjorth Nielsen, Povl Christensen, etc., left the school. In the post-war years there followed a second boom, with names such as Palle Nielsen, Dan Sterup-Hansen, Svend Wiig Hansen, Jane Muus and Rasmus Nellemann. Several of them have since made significant pedagogical contributions to the development of graphic design as teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Graphic Arts. The results are visible today.

The five graphic artists in this exhibition studied at the Graphic School of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and thus represent the best of Danish graphic design. They belong to a new generation of graphic artists who nevertheless emphasise traditional, authentic graphic character and quality. They stick mainly to the basic elements of graphic design, black and white. They believe that the use of colour effects and painterly effects, as well as the large size of the works, can be a serious obstacle to the development of the quality and content of graphics.

All the graphic artists in the exhibition use visible reality, people and their environment, as their subject matter. There are 42 works in total, including etchings, stone drawings, lithographs and etchings.

The exhibition has been put together by the Nordic Art Centre.

Translated with DeepL