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In 1933 Carl-Henning Pedersen met the painter Else Alfelt, and shortly
after he quit the idea of becoming either an musician or a writer. In
stead he started painting, and three years later he got his debut at the
danish Artists Exhibition of Autumn with four abstract paintings.
In 1941 Carl-Henning Pedersen was involved in the group of danish artists
grouped around the magazine helhesten, from 1942 he was involved in the
group called Høst, and in 1948 he joined cobra.
Besides oil paintings Carl-Henning Pedersen make ink drawings and paints
aquarelles populated by birds and horses, and in periods he has done several
public decorations like at the museum for both his and Else Alfelts works
of art.
Inspired by the mask motifs and spontanic way of Egill Jacobsens painting,
Carl-Henning Pedersen started paint more freely in 1937, and the mask
was introduced in his paintings for a short period. By time the mask was
replaced by a magnificent world inhabited by fabulous monsters and other
creatures, gods, humans and animals living in different landscapes (the
sea, sky and earth) usually in the light from several suns.
From 1950 the already free style of expression became more sketchy, and
the bright colors was replaced by soft and blurred poetic harmonies of
colors with one color being the predominant.
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