Henry Heerup (1907–1993) was a Danish artist born in Copenhagen and educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Drawing on the ideals of free expression, he became involved with several influential art groups, including Linien, Høst, and later, the CoBrA movement. While he exhibited with CoBrA in Amsterdam and Liège in 1949 and 1951, Heerup never signed the CoBrA manifesto. Despite this, Heerup’s work exemplified the CoBrA ideals of breaking down the boundaries that separate art from everyday life until his death in 1993.
Additional Artworks
From Villanova University Art Collection
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Joyce Tenneson
Blushing Bride, 2015
Archival pigment print
22 x 17 in
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Caleb Cain Marcus
A Painting for a King (Humayun's Tomb, India), 2005
Digital chromogenic print
20 x 16 in
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Jenny Lynn
Black Swan, 1983
Gelatin silver print
17.5 x 13.5 in
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Eugène Brands
Untitled (Sun Shade), 1957, 1957
Oil on paper
25 x 19 in
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Otto Mueller
Zwei Schwestern (Two Women)
Print
14.25 x 11.25 in
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Alen MacWeeney
Boy With Piebalds, Ballinasloe Horsefair
Archival pigment print
21.5 x 16.25 in
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Alen MacWeeney
Bare Trees, Mayo
Photograph
21.5 x 14.5 in
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Jacques Lipchitz
Untitled Abstract Nude Carrying Nude, Both Running From Fire.
Lithograph
24 x 17.5 in
About the artist
Henry Heerup
Danish
1905–1993