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The Danish artist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics and architecture. Stays in Paris in the early 1890s drew him towards Symbolism. The relationship between the human body and nature subsequently became a major theme, expressed through monumental figures and emphatic colour. His practice brought together a wide range of media and forms of expression.
A Mountain Climber provides a central example. A watercolour of 1902 in the David Collection depicts his future wife, Edith Wessel, seated in the Alps, preparing the painting of 1904. The version painted in 1912, at the Statens Museum for Kunst, repeats the composition with lighter colours and freer brushwork. The woman standing before the mountains transforms the experience of hiking into an image of strength and independence.
This profile brings together identity references for Jens Ferdinand Willumsen and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Oil on canvas
Schuhmacherstand auf einem Platz in Valencia, 1913
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-06-25
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