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Else Alfelt was member of the danish exhibition group Høst, since
involved in the group of Helhesten, and in 1948 she joined Cobra. In 1933
she met Carl-Henning Pedersen, and from the they shared life and the art.
After a few years at Technical School, Else Alfelt started painting in
1926, 17 years old. She did not have succes: Very few times the public
was to see her paintings and when they did her paintings got lots of critique.
Several times she tried to send paintings for the Exhibition of Autumn
(a censored exhibition place in Denmark for debutants, and a place, still,
to be recognised as an artist) without being accepted. By then she was
almost giving up painting, but finally she was accepted, and decided to
continue painting.
When she met Carl-Henning Pedersen in 1933, he had no plans of becomming
a painter, but urged by her painting he also started painting. In mutual
inspiration they both moved against the abstract way of expression and
by 1937 Else Alfelt had left back the naturalistic and social-realistic
expressions she had been occupied with until then.
Her compositions evolved into geometric abstact forms and from 1940 two
forms became dominant: Symbolic triangular mountain (peaks) that reach
for moon (and sun) cirkles in the sky. At the end of the fourties the
lines became more free in her paintings and the dark colors was replaced
by more bright ones.
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