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Marie Luplau (b. Hillerød 1848, d. Frederiksberg 1925)

View from Lake Geneva, in the distance snowcovered mountains. Signed and dated M. Luplau Genève April 11. Oil on panel. 15×22 cm.

In the early 1870s, Marie Luplau began training as an artist at Vilhelm Kyhn's (1819–1903) drawing school for women, where she met her life companion the painter Emilie Mundt (1842–1922). In 1874, both women applied to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, but they were both rejected - women were not admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts until 1888 with the establishment of the Academy of Fine Arts' School of Art for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder). Because of the rejection, the two women traveled, on the advice of the painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann (1818–1881), to Munich to further their education, where women, unlike in Denmark, had the opportunity to draw after nude model. In 1878, Luplau made her debut at Charlottenborg. In 1882–84, Mundt and Luplau went to Paris to study at the private French art academy the Académie Colarossi, where among many others also Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) og Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) have studied. During her stay in France - especially in Paris and Brittany - Luplau developed into one of the first Danish female plein air painters. She was particularly concerned with the variability of light under different weather conditions.

After returning from Munich, Luplau established and ran, together with Mundt, until 1912 a private drawing and painting school for women, which had the right to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts' School of Art for Women, and they thus came to impress an entire generation of young female artists.

Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 198, 1966 no. 118.

Exhibited: “Bad Timing - or How to Write History Without Objects”, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2023, cat. no. 49.

This lot is part of our ongoing theme: Pioneering Women Artists 1850-1950

Condition

Minimal crackles.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Paintings, furniture and varia, 11 March 2024

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