Inger Hanmann

Inger Frimann Hanmann (née Clausen; 7 November 1918 – 9 June 2007) was a Danish artist, specializing in painting and enamelwork.

When her father moved to Copenhagen, she went with him, taking up studies at the Design School for Women (Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder) from 1935 to 1938.

During these studies she was influenced by the paintings of Matisse and Picasso in the museums, and attended contemporary music and jazz concerts.

[1] A change in Hanmann's career occurred when she met Marius Schou, a director at C. Schous Fabrikker, who advised her to pursue her art work adopting the medium of industrial enamel, which the company produced.

She collaborated with A. Michelsen and Georg Jensen who were silversmiths, adapting her painting style to the creation of many enamelled holloware works, some inlaid with silver and gold leaf.

She created a large gable painting in Gammel Kongevej in 1990, and a 15 meter high movable sculpture for the new Danish embassy in Berlin in 1999.