Bodil Kaalund

[3][4] Born in Silkeborg on 8 November 1930, Bodil Marie Kaalund was the daughter of the painter Martin Kaalund-Jørgensen (1889–1952) and Hilda Jenny Rasmussen (1896–1984), a teacher.

[1] Her mother, who never worked professionally, became her teacher when she and her elder sister spent their long summers in their Røsnæs summerhouse.

[1] After matriculating from high school, she studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Kræsten Iversen, Holger J. Jensen and Elof Risebye, graduating in 1954.

She later collaborated with Hans Lynge to establish Grønlands Kunstskole (Greenland's Art School), which opened in 1972.

[1] In 1977, she decorated Lemvig Church in the west of Jutland, establishing a lasting relationship with the locality.

[5] Kaalund had received many awards, including the Greenlandic Cultural Prize (2000) and the Academy's N. L. Høyen Medal (2002).