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Else Alfelt

1910 - 1974

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Else Alfelt (16 September 1910 – 9 August 1974) was a Danish artist who specialized in abstract paintings, and a member of the avant-garde COBRA movement - one of its only two female members. Alfelt was involved with the major avant-garde art movements in Denmark from the 1930s through the 1950s, working in an abstract idiom of colorful prismatic compositions. She was married to Carl-Henning Pedersen, another prominent CoBrA member. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Else Alfelt is the 1,397th most popular painter (up from 1,681st in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 452nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Danish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Else Alfelt ranks 1,397 out of 2,023. Before her are Bridget Riley, Dirk van der Aa, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Julien Dupré, Giulia Lama, and Tony Robert-Fleury. After her are Agnes Martin, Abram Arkhipov, Chen Hongshou, Kolë Idromeno, Ilya Kabakov, and Charb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Else Alfelt ranks 189. Before her are José María Guido, Edmund Leach, Olga Bergholz, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Ángel Sanz Briz, and Otto Andersson. After her are Francisco Coloane, Elmar Klos, Maxim Munzuk, Edwin O. Reischauer, László Lékai, and Cao Yu. Among people deceased in 1974, Else Alfelt ranks 142. Before her are Karl Hohmann, José Miró Cardona, Egon Wellesz, Hertta Kuusinen, Kurt Hahn, and Lev Knipper. After her are Georgette Heyer, Willem Marinus Dudok, Karl Sesta, Ernesto Vidal, Holger Meins, and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Else Alfelt ranks 369 out of 1,032. Before her are Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden (1120), Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758), Margrethe Vestager (1968), Kristian Zahrtmann (1843), Christian August Lorentzen (1749), and Kim Vilfort (1962). After her are Pilou Asbæk (1982), Gitte Hænning (1946), Christian Eriksen (1992), Lucile Grahn (1819), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), and Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ (1812).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Else Alfelt ranks 25. Before her are Per Kirkeby (1938), Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913), Viggo Johansen (1851), Albert Küchler (1803), Kristian Zahrtmann (1843), and Christian August Lorentzen (1749). After her are Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1864), Wilhelm Bendz (1804), L. A. Ring (1854), Theodor Philipsen (1840), Karl Madsen (1855), and Lorenz Frølich (1820).

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