Gerda Madvig

Gerda Madvig (April 14, 1868[1] – September 10, 1940) was a Danish sculptress and painter.[2]

Gerda Madvig
Madvig in the 1880s
Born
Gerda Heyman

(1868-04-14)14 April 1868
Died10 September 1940(1940-09-10) (aged 72)
NationalityDanish
Known forSculpture, painting
MovementRealism, Impressionism
SpouseCharles William Madvig
ChildrenEdith Madvig Fersing

Biography

Gerda Madvig was born Gerda Heyman in Copenhagen to the Jewish-Danish industrialist and etatsråd Philip Wulff Heyman, co-founder of Tuborg Brewery and pioneer of Danish butter and bacon exports, and his wife Hanne Emilie Adler, both Danish Jews with roots in Germany.[3]

Career

Madvig learned to draw with the painter and illustrator Carl Thomsen, and then to model with professor August Saabye, with whom she worked for four to five years. In 1892, she exhibited at the annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition her first piece, En kvinde, and in 1893 Sovende barn. Later, modeled a body-sized figure, called Asra and some busts, among others, one of her sister Jenny, who was married to the painter Georg Seligmann.

Madvig also played music and gave concerts in Paris, where she lived from 1903 until shortly before her death.

Style

Madvig used especially family members as models, but also famous people, both contemporaries, like professor Julius Petersen, and deceased, such as the composer Frédéric Chopin. As a sculptor, she was a naturalist, while her painting was mostly influenced by French Impressionism.

Personal life

She married the painter Charles William Madvig on May 16, 1905, in Paris. They had one daughter, art dealer Edith Madvig Fersing.[4]

Death

Madvig died in Charlottenlund, Denmark, in 1940. She is buried at Hellerup Cemetery.

Works

Sculpture

  • En kvinde ("A woman", 1892)
  • Sovende barn ("Sleeping Child", 1893)
  • Moderen (relief, 1902-03)
  • Asra (figure)
  • Dyrestatuetter (bronze)
  • La vigilance (bronze, ca. 1937)
  • Kristus (1938)
  • Statuetter af datteren Edith

Busts

Paintings

  • Fiskehavn i Nordfrankrig (exhibited in 1928)

References

  1. Gerda Madvig at Kunstindeks Danmark
  2. "Gerda Madvig | J. F. Willumsen". jfwillumsen.ktdk.dk. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  3. "Book Review". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 55 (1): 71–73. 2007-04-01. doi:10.1080/03585520701233573. ISSN 0358-5522.
  4. Edith Madvig Fersing. Carlsberg Foundation
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