Carl-Henning Pedersen
Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913 – 20 February 2007) was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement.
He joined the International Folk High School in Elsinore in 1933, where he met self-taught painter Else Alfelt.
His modernist style was at odds with the socialist realism preferred by his communist friends, who snubbed him and he argued with Bertolt Brecht about his art.
He joined the Høst group during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, writing about medieval Danish murals for its journal, Helhesten, and continued to produce seditiously modern abstract works.
Pedersen moved into monumental art in the 1960s and 1970s, producing a large mosaic, "Cosmic Sea", for the H. C. Ørsted Institute at Copenhagen University, and a huge tiled wall decoration, "Fantasy Play Around the Wheel of Life", for the Angli courtyard in Herning for example.
The museum houses a collection of the artist couple Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt's paintings, watercolors, sculptures, mosaics.
In Denmark, this work initiated contemporary decorations in old churches, but also stirred great controversy.