Background
ANDERSEN, Mogens was born on August 8, 1916 in Copenhagen. Son of late Einar F. T. Andersen and late Erna Ingeborg, nee Andersen.
ANDERSEN, Mogens was born on August 8, 1916 in Copenhagen. Son of late Einar F. T. Andersen and late Erna Ingeborg, nee Andersen.
In Copenhagen under art master P. Rostrup Boyesen.
Copenhagen 1935-1940, 1942-1950, 1953-1966, 1967; Paris 1950-1974, 1981. Private Exhbns.: Copenhagen 1953, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1976 (retrospective), Alborg (Denmark) 1954, 1972, Lund (Sweden) 1959, Paris 1951, 1959, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1981, Warsaw 1973, Belgrade 1973, Zagreb, Randers 1981, Aarhus 1982, 1988, Budapest 1983, 1984, Pittsburgh 1987; group exhibitions in Europe and the United States of America; Venice Biennale 1968, retrospective Copenhagen 1988, Aarhus Kunstmuseum 1990; paintings hung in Modem Museum, Skopje 1965, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Kunstmuseum, Malmo, and many other museums in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland and United States of America Major works: Composition in Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen 1955, Mural, Central Library, Copenhagen 1958-1959, Composition in Central Library, Arhus 1964, October, State Art Museum 1964, Mural, Gentofte Town Hall 1971, Restaurante Copenhagen, Paris 1973, Handelsbanken, Copenhagen 1975, Northern Feather Institute, Danmarks Tekniske Hojskole 1979, Panum-institutet, Copenhagen 1981, Kunstmuseum, Bochum 1981, Musikhuset, Aarhus 1982, Metalskolen, Holstebro, Skafogaard, Mbrke konstmuseum, Lund, Mural in Sejs Church, Denmark 1989. Teacher art, Copenhagen, 1952-1959. Member art faculty Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1963, Royal Academy Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1970-1972. President Danish State Art Foundation, 1977-1980.
Committee Danish Art Exhibition Arrangement 1956-1958. Royal Academy, of Fine Arts 1956, Professor 1970-1972.
Married Inger Therkildsen, November 28, 1947. Children: Christian, Benedicte.