MOGENS BALLIN. Radical forms

Corner display

21 April - 11 July 2021

How do you reinvent art? Danish artist Mogens Ballin (1871–1914) was keenly interested in that question. At the age of eighteen, he set out for Paris in 1889. Here he became friends with several members of the artist group Les Nabis, ‘the Prophets’. They took a radical approach to art, seeking for a new spirituality, inspired partly by the painter and mystic Paul Gauguin.

In 2020, the Hirschsprung Collection acquired two remarkable works of art by Mogens Ballin. They are on display in this exhibition, which tells of Ballin’s artistic search for new and radical forms. A quest that led him through a religious crisis and to a new calling as a designer.