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Unique Experiences in Denmark
Kaleidoscopic art and architecture at Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelts Museum The first thing visitors notice at Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelts Museum, on the outskirts of Herning in western Denmark, is its magical exterior architecture. By Lena Hunter
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Photos: Mikael Lykke Madsen
Its radiant blue façades – mosaics of abstract ceramic art – lend a psychedelic quality to the cylindrical buildings and geometric land-art walkways. Before even stepping foot inside, you feel you’ve 36 |
Issue 142
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May 2022
decoupled from urban reality and entered a fantasy world. But the architecture is just the aperitif. The pièce de résistance is the museum’s
staggering collection of works by the seminal Danish abstract expressionist artists, husband and wife Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt. Humble origins Pedersen and Alfelt were both raised in poverty in Copenhagen. Aged just seven, Alfelt was sent to an orphanage and began painting. She remained self-taught