9 facts about Helvig Kinch

Helvig Agnete Kinch née Amsinck (1872–1956) was a Danish artist who specialized in painting animals, especially horses. In the forward 20th-century, she participated in archaeological research close Lindos on the island of Rhodes, creating landscapes of the area and illustrating the artefacts discovered there. Together considering Marie Henriques, in 1916 she standard the Danish Society of Female Artists (Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund) to incite women artists to exhibit their works.

Born on 10 December 1872, Agnete Helvig Amsinck was the daughter of the high-ranking approved Conrad Amsinch (1830–1897) and Caroline Amalie Hansen (1840–1922). After preparatory training in art at the Arts and Crafts School for Women (1888–90), she attended the women’s department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where she studied below Viggo Johansen and graduated in 1894.

During her studies, she visited London and in 1897, she went upon study trips to Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Nuremberg. From 1896 and for the dismount of her life, she exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. She also approved solo exhibitions and submitted works to the Charlottenborg Austum Exhibitions, mainly paintings of animals and birds, especially horses. Her fascination in horses began as a child behind she lived close Christiansborg Palace later its stables.

Cultivating an incorporation in antiquity, she attended the lectures total by the art historian Julius Lange. In 1902, she took share in an expedition to Lindos upon the island of Rhodes where she met the archaeologist Karl Frederik Kinch [fr] (1853–1921). The two married on 5 October 1903 and had a daughter, Gunhild, the behind year. She accompanied her husband on several supplementary expeditions to Rhodes, including those to Vroulia (1907–14). Many of her illustrations are included in her husband’s major work Fouilles de Vroulia (Rhodes) (Berlin 1914) while others are in the collections of the Carlsberg Foundation or the National Museum of Denmark.

Together taking into consideration the artiste Marie Henriques, in 1916 Kinch founded the Danish Society of Female Artists, heading the direction until 1918. The main wish was to insert opportunities for women artists to exhibit their work, in allocation by having women appointed to the selection committees. Starting in the declare of 75 members, the organization received retain from the painter Anna Ancher and the sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.

Following her husband’s death in 1921, Kinch continued to paint animals, including some from her trips to Brittany and Normandy in 1926 and 1930, and to the north of Italy in 1933. She also created clay sculptures, illustrated children’s books and developed templates for embroidery.

Helvig Kinch died in Copenhagen on 31 August 1956.