Astrid Noack

12.03.53 – 29.04.53

In 1953, Kunstnernes Hus had a retrospective exhibition of the Danish sculptor Astrid Noack (1888-1954). The exhibition consisted of sculptures and drawings. Noack worked on the restoration of medieval sculptures for the Danish National Museum before she trained as a sculptor, which may be the reason why her sculptures have a medieval style. Her style is also described as realistic.

Astrid Noack (1888-1954) was a Danish sculptor. She was educated at the Academie Maison Watteau in Paris under Adam Fischer and later under Charles Despiau and Paul Cornet. A sculpture she made of Anna Ancher for Skagens Museum in the 1930s is considered one of her most central works.

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The Henry Moore exhibition has just ended. Now Astrid Noack is moving in and in the spring, Marino Marini will come ..... I wonder if we have not presented the audience with the three most important sculptors of the time?

Both Moore and Marini have a reputation that justifies such a claim. Astrid Noack belongs to a small nation, her art has so far had little opportunity to work beyond Scandinavia's borders. And even she will probably oppose to participating in some kind of man-leveling. We can avoid that. We only know that in her sculpture she shows precisely the qualities that create the great art: She has the humble attitude to life and the immediate ability to experience, the sure mastery of the means of expression and the urge to still take up any problem as if it were new.

We do not think anyone who has experienced Astrid Noack's work will doubt that she is one of the greatest. We believe her work will have an inciting effect on Norwegian sculpture - and we welcome her warmly.

The management of Kunstnernes Hus