Emilie Mundt (b. Sorø 1849, d. Frederiksberg 1922)
Portrait of a woman in a red dress standing in a living room with a glove in her hand. Signed and dated E. Mundt 1889. Oil on canvas. 134×90 cm.
Inscribed ’A. N. Schioldann Gl. Kongevej 136’ on the reverse of the frame.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1889 no. 563.
Provenance: Master builder Schioldann (1889). Bruun Rasmussen auction 453, 1983 no. 140.
Albert Nicolai Schioldann (1843–1917) was a master builder, architect, councilor of justice and founder of Schioldann’s Foundation in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. Schioldann was the builder and owner of a large residential property with luxury flats, which was built at Gl. Kongevej 136–38 in Copenhagen in 1885. Schioldann himself moved into the first floor of the building together with his wife Frederikke Christiane Schioldann, née Meyer (1847-?). The building's fourth floor was designed with seven large artist studios. In 1886, the artists Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplau (1848–1925) moved into the studios, where they created a shared artist's home and established a private drawing and painting school for women. The school had graduation rights to the Academy of Fine Arts' Art School for Women and it quickly became popular, and Mundt and Luplau thus came to influence an entire generation of young female artists. They ran the school on Gl. Kongevej until 1913.
The present painting presumably depicts Schioldann's wife Frederikke.
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Paintings and drawings, 6 December 2023