Klingen (magazine)

Klingen
CategoriesArt magazine
FounderAxel Salto
Founded1917
First issueOctober 1917
Final issueNovember 1920
CountryDenmark
Based inCopenhagen
LanguageDanish
ISSN1395-2706
OCLC467809661

Klingen (Danish: Blade) was an art magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The magazine existed between 1917 and 1920.

History and profile

Klingen was established in 1917, and the first issue appeared in October 1917.[1][2] The magazine was inspired from the German magazine Der Sturm and the Swedish magazine Flamman.[3] Its founder was the painter and graphic artist Axel Salto.[1][4] The magazine was based in Copenhagen.[5]

Klingen is cited as a significant vehicle for the entrance of modernism in Denmark.[2][6] In addition, it was instrumental in expanding avant-garde art into Nordic countries.[1]

Klingen had significant effects on painters, writers and intellectuals in the region.[5] The magazine particularly emphasized the significance of new artistic approaches such as cubism and expressionism which would be adopted by the Danish painters Vilhelm Lundstrøm and Harald Giersing.[7] The artists attached to the magazine had an optimistic view following World War I, and argued that the beauty in art had social and political significance providing a means in understanding and responding to the chaotic situation of post-war Europe.[5]

Major contributors of Klingen included Otto Gelsted, Emil Bønnelycke, Poul Henningsen and Sophus Danneskjold-Samsøe.[1] Klingen ceased publication in November 1920 after producing a total of thirty-six issues.[2] In 1942 an anniversary issue was published.[2] Klingen was one of the magazines which inspired the Danish arts magazine Helhesten.[8]

Several issues of Klingen were digitized by the Royal Library of Denmark in 1996.[9] All issues, including the 1942 anniversary issue, of the magazine are also archived under the Blue Mountain Project of Princeton University.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bjarne S. Bendtsen (2012). "Copenhagen Swordplay: Avant-Garde Manoeuvres and the Aesthetics of War in the Art Magazine Klingen (1917-1920)". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. pp. 391–400. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_026. ISBN 978-90-420-3620-8.
  2. ^ a b c d Bjarne S. Bendtsen (2013). "Copenhagen: From the Ivory Tower to Street Activism". In Peter Brooker; et al. (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880-1940. Vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 624. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
  3. ^ Benedikt Hjartarson (2006). "Dragging Nordic Horses past the Sludge of Extremes. The Beginnings of the Icelandic Avant-Garde". In Sascha Bru; Gunther Martens (eds.). The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940) (19 ed.). Amsterdam; New York, NY: Rodopi. p. 244. doi:10.1163/9789401202527_014. ISBN 978-94-012-0252-7.
  4. ^ Judith Gura (20 December 2014). "Mid-Century Innovator: Ceramicist Axel Salto Blended Form and Function". Blouinartinfo. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Michael S. Byram (1973). The Novels of Tom Kristensen. Livets Arabesk, En Anden and Hærværk in their original context (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.15906.
  6. ^ Hubert van den Berg; Benedikt Hjartarson (2012). "Icelandic Artists in the Network of the European Avant Garde. The Cases of Jón Stefánsson and Finnur Jónsson". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 233. ISBN 978-90-420-3620-8.
  7. ^ Steen Klitgård Povlsen (2007). "Danish Modernism". In Astradur Eysteinsson; Vivian Liska (eds.). Modernism. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 855. ISBN 978-90-272-9204-9.
  8. ^ Kerry Greaves (March 2014). "Hell-Horse: Radical Art and Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Denmark". Oxford Art Journal. 37 (1): 51. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kct043.
  9. ^ "Klingen, Volume 1". Archive.org. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Title: Klingen". Princeton University Library. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
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