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Does anyone know anything about this?
I found a short paragraph (in Norwegian) on google saying that the Danish painter
Egill Jacobsen, had painted a "Jack the Ripper" painting that apparently hangs in the Danish Royal Palace in Copenhagen.
Here are some details of the said painter.
Jacobsen, Egill
(b Copenhagen, 16 Dec 1910). Danish painter. He studied at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen from 1932 to 1933. Early influences upon him included the Danish painters Harald Giersing, Jens Søndergaard and Edvard Weie. However, he quickly discovered an individual, highly painterly form of expression using intense colours. After his début at the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (Artists’ autumn exhibition) in Copenhagen in 1932, he went to Paris, where the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had a great impact on him. At the same time he sought inspiration in the folk art of Africa and in this he found a subject that ran through all his work: the mask. He was enchanted by its simple, archetypal form and in 1936 he exhibited mask pictures for the first time. The figurative and the colouristic aspects of his work culminated in Orange Object (1940; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst), which revealed the mask picture as simultaneously grotesque and Constructivist in character.
I believe, without being anywhere near sure, that one of his "mask" series is the painting in question. But have no idea. I have tried to find the answer, but throw it open to you all to help perhaps?
best wishes
Phil
I found a short paragraph (in Norwegian) on google saying that the Danish painter
Egill Jacobsen, had painted a "Jack the Ripper" painting that apparently hangs in the Danish Royal Palace in Copenhagen.
Here are some details of the said painter.
Jacobsen, Egill
(b Copenhagen, 16 Dec 1910). Danish painter. He studied at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen from 1932 to 1933. Early influences upon him included the Danish painters Harald Giersing, Jens Søndergaard and Edvard Weie. However, he quickly discovered an individual, highly painterly form of expression using intense colours. After his début at the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (Artists’ autumn exhibition) in Copenhagen in 1932, he went to Paris, where the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had a great impact on him. At the same time he sought inspiration in the folk art of Africa and in this he found a subject that ran through all his work: the mask. He was enchanted by its simple, archetypal form and in 1936 he exhibited mask pictures for the first time. The figurative and the colouristic aspects of his work culminated in Orange Object (1940; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst), which revealed the mask picture as simultaneously grotesque and Constructivist in character.
I believe, without being anywhere near sure, that one of his "mask" series is the painting in question. But have no idea. I have tried to find the answer, but throw it open to you all to help perhaps?
best wishes
Phil
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