Det er med stor glede Kunstnernes Hus ønsker sine danske gjester velkommen til Oslo med denne rike utstilling. Dan Sterup-Hansen, Svend Wiig Hansen og Palle Nielsen er kommet på besøk til oss for å vise de kunstneriske problemer de er opptatt med og hvordan de løser dem. Sant nok, alle tre har vært her før. Men som spill-levende og kjempende kunstnere møter de med nye arbeider preget av ny viden om så vel menneskelige som kunstneriske problemer. Og eldre arbeider vil i denne sammenheng kanskje kunne oppleves som sett for første gang.
Vi tror denne utstilling har verdifulle impulser å gi oss.

Dan Sterup-Hanssen (1918-1995) was a Danish painter, graphic artist, illustrator and professor. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Aksel Jørgensen and Georg Jacobsen, and later he worked as a professor at the same academy. He carried out a number of decoration assignments around Denmark.

Svend Wiig Hansen (1922-1997) was a Danish painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts' sculpture school in Copenhagen. Man and the human figure were central elements in Hansen's art and many of his best-known sculptures are based on man, such as Mensenker ved havet and Menneskeridt.
Hansen is represented at the National Museum with the painting Sammenbruddet.

Palle Nielsen (1920-2000) was a Danish graphic artist, illustrator and draftsman who is best known for his detailed woodcuts and linoleum cuts. Central to his works are themes such as emptiness and other negative concepts linked to city life.
Nielsen illustrated several books for authors and also created several picture series. Some of these picture series were later published as graphic novels.
Several of his pictures can be found in private and public collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.