Imagination & Individuality - The designs of Lorenz Frølich

IMAGINATION & INDIVIDUALITY – The design of Lorenz Frølich

Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908) was one of Denmark’s most versatile, internationally orientated and productive artists, who worked as a painter, illustrator and designer up through most of the 19th century.

In its collections, The Danish Museum of Art & Design houses the central works of Lorenz Frølich’s design, among other things furniture created for his own home. Frølich became an ideal and inspiration for a new generation of artists such as Thorvald Bindesbøll, Joakim and Niels Skovgaard and the Slott-Møller circle.

Frølich’s ornamentation and design of furniture and textiles etc. reaches far beyond his own time and hits on trends in the present; this is why his manifold, imaginative and captivating works deserve to be presented anew to children and adults.

Frølich is also the book illustrator who created images for the oldest Danish and Nordic history and myth, later transformed into larger formats in a series of woven tapestries for Copenhagen City Hall. With humour and character he writes and illustrates about 100 children’s books, which are published both in Denmark and abroad, and creates illustrations for the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. At the exhibition Frølich’s many facets are is visualised and one focal point will be on the world of children.
8 May – 30 August 2009

Last updated 08.12.2010