Emilie Mundt: Portrait of a girl, ant. study from a children's asylum, pastel on paper, 1894

Automatic translation from Danish.

Emilie Mundt (1842-1922): Portrait of a girl, ant. study from a children's asylum, pastel on paper, signed and dated E. Mundt May 1894. Frame dimensions 39 x 36 cm.

In the years 1873-74, Emilie Mundt began further training as an artist. She first studied with the painter Jørgen Roed for two months and then attended Vilhelm Kyhn's drawing and painting school for women, where she met her life partner, the painter Marie Luplau. In 1874, the two women applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, but were both rejected, after which they traveled together to Munich for eight months. It was not until 14 years later, in 1888, that the academy opened its doors to women, with the establishment of the Academy of Fine Arts' Art School for Women. Mundt came to influence a younger generation of female artists when, together with Luplau, in 1886, she opened a private drawing school, which the couple ran together until 1913, with graduation rights to the Danish Academy of Fine Arts' Art School for Women.