'Still Life' by Knud Horup

Regular price: Sold
Sale price: AU $1,195.00

artist: Knud Horup (Danish 1926-1973)

medium: oil on canvas

dimensions: 69 x 79 cm framed size (approx)
signed
circa 1960s

presented in its original frame

** NOTE - this is a large painting and too big to ship via Airmail post. If you are outside of Australia extra shipping will need to be added (we estimate the total shipping would be around AU$200)

AU $1195 (approx US $805 / 730 EUROS / 118,500 yen / 615 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)

** Was on show and for sale at Danish Red - 1214 High Street Armadale VIC - now sold

artist biography
Knud Ejnar Horup was born on 22 May 1926. He was a Danish painter best known for his modernist approach to Scandinavian landscapes settings.

Horup attended the Århus Tekniske Skole (Technical School) in Århus and then the Hovedskous School of Painting (Hovedskous målarskola) in Gothenburg - this was a private school founded by the Danish artist (and celebrated WWII resistance fighter) Börge Hovedskou (1910-1966). Hovedskou moved to Sweden in 1943 and founded the painting school in the Haga district of Gothenburg.

Horup’s solo exhibitions (in Denmark, Sweden and Norway) were always well received by both critics and collectors.

He showed also in group exhibitions including Ung Kunst (Young Art) in Århus in 1951, the annual Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (Artist’s Autumn Exhibition) - held at the Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen in 1952 and 1953, the Danish artists association’s Den Frie Udstilling at Østerbrogade, Copenhagen in 1952. In 1955 Horup exhibited at the newly restored Aalborghallen in Aalborg, Denmark and in 1956 he was invited to exhibit at the Exhibition of Danish Crafts (Den Permanente) in the Vesterbrogade district of Copenhagen.

Horup was also a motorsports enthusiast and as an amateur rally driver often frequented the training track near Hvidsten in the late 1950s / early 1960s. He was very proud of his Austin Healey 3000 which he bought in 1962 (apparently after a particularly good month of paintings sold) from the driver Gunnar Andersen.

Knud Horup passed away in 1973, at the age of 47.