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Axel Peder Jensen Expressionist Vibrant Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame
Axel Peder Jensen Expressionist Vibrant Landscape Oil Painting in Gold Frame
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Axel Peder Jensen (Danish, 1885-1972) vibrant, expressionist summer landscape oil painting on canvas. Artwork in original gold wood frame with white painted liner measures 16.75" x 21.5". Artwork and frame in very good, vintage condition with light, scattered age appropriate wear. Last photo is an auction sale price (before buyer's premium) of one of Jensen's landscapes.
Jensen was a member of the Funen Painters, a now famed vibrant artists' colony on the island of Funen, Denmark, in the early 20th century.
As a pupil of Zahrtmann and a friend of Olaf Rude, Jais Nielsen and William Scharff, Jensen was one of a small group of Danish modernists who exhibited with De Tretten and later at the Grønningen. Despite numerous portraits in his early years, he was primarily a landscape painter, deeply attached to the countryside where he spent most of his life. He had an acute sense of the changing seasons, the wind and the weather. He spent most of his time in Blokhus in Vendsyssel in the north of Jutland, painting fields, marshes and sand dunes, sometimes with a few figures and perhaps houses, trees or telephone poles to enhance the composition. Like Fritz Syberg before him, he was one of the few Danes who not only painted summer scenes but also the ploughed fields of the autumn and the cold and wet of winter. Any sense of sadness was however usually dispelled by the bright, colourful texture of his works. Jensen was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 1926 and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1946.
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