Franciska Clausen

Franciska Clausen, 7.1.1899-5.3.1986, painter. Born and raised in Aabenraa as the city was German, received his artistic education in Germany 1916-17 where she studied in Weimar at the Grossherzogliche Kunstschule, and 1918-19 at Frauenakademie in Munich. 1920, she came to the Academy of fine arts in Copenhagen.

After these studies she came in closer contact with the contemporary modern art when she studied in His 1921-22 Hofmanns atelier in Munich, and even more so by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy acquaintance with, one of the constructionist art leaders. In Munich she had already 1921 painted spontaneistiske, abstract watercolors, now she worked under Moholy Nagys-guide with constructionist exercises and paintings in a sober, simple, realistic style. From 1924-25, she worked in Paris at the Académie Moderne Léger Fernand, and his art had a decisive influence on her work, though her photos are less figurative than learn the master's.

1924 exhibited Franciska Clausen with Otto Carlssund and Erik Olson in Paris at an exhibition of Playing and his Scandinavian students. Towards the end of the twenties she received impulses from the abstract, "neoplasticistiske" direction and exhibited with the group "Cercle et Carré 1930" which, inter alia, Piet Mondrian was participating. A separate exhibition she got first 1932 in Copenhagen.

When Francisk Clausen not during her stay abroad had her own Studio, many of her visual art ideas only maintained in gouache and water colours while the paintings with these motifs in the 1950s and 1960s was to first. For many years worked Francisk Clausen in Åbenrå isolated from the Danish artistic life with the execution of the portrait bookings as bread work. A retrospective exhibition of her work in 1962, organized by the Sydslesvigs Danish art society, and Art Association Exhibition of her paintings and gouaches 1964 created a new interest in her art. She received the Tagea Brandt 1966 scholarship and from 1974 a scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundation, from the 1979 lifetime performance.

Artwork by Franciska found, among other things. in The Royal engraving collection, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Skive museum, Tønder museum, Åbenrå museum, Funen art museum of art, the Museum at Sønderborg Castle, Trapholt Museum of, which has a separate Department with her works, ARoS. Decorating: Mosaic on the town square in Albertslund (the Danish Arts Foundation). Portraits, inter alia, in the people's home, Åbenrå. Portrait of Queen Margrethe II, 1977, Queen Ingrid 1980.

The article derives from 3. Edition of the Danish biographical lexicon, published 1979-84.