Helhesten
| Categories | Arts magazine |
|---|---|
| Founder |
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| Founded | 1941 |
| First issue | April 1941 |
| Final issue | November 1944 |
| Country | Denmark |
| Based in | Copenhagen |
| Language | Danish |
| OCLC | 154002703 |
Helhesten (Danish: The Hell-Horse) was an arts and literary magazine which was published between 1941 and 1944 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was one of the leading publications during World War II in the region.
History and profile
Helhesten was first published in Copenhagen in April 1941 during the Nazi occupation of the city.[1] Its founders were Asger Jorn, a painter, and Robert Dahlmann, an architect.[2] They were part of the Danish Harvest group.[3] The magazine adopted an avant-garde approach and opposed the Nazi propaganda.[1] Its main contributors who were supporters of German expressionism, dada and surrealism included Ejler Bille, Henry Heerup, Egill Jacobsen and Carl-Henning Pedersen.[1] It mostly featured articles on art theory, non-Western work, literature, poetry, film, architecture, and photography in addition to the reviews of art exhibitions and biographies of Danish artists.[1] Asger Jorn's translation of the work by Franz Kafka was serialized in Helhesten which was the first translation of Kafka into Danish.[4] The magazine produced a total of nine issues before its closure in November 1944.[3][4] It was succeeded by another magazine entitled Cobra.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Kerry Greaves (2015). Mobilizing the collective: Helhesten and the Danish avant-garde, 1934-1946 (PhD thesis). City University of New York. ISBN 978-1-321-49966-7. ProQuest 1651529564.
- ^ Karen Kurczynski (2019). "Asger Jorn and Cobra – A Many Headed Beast". In Benedikt Hjartarson; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant- Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi. p. 162. ISBN 978-90-04-38829-1.
- ^ a b c Philip Hawkins (2006). An Enquiry into Fully Lived Moments (PhD thesis). University of Plymouth. pp. 7, 18, 82. hdl:10026.1/2651.
- ^ a b Asger Jorn; Niels Henriksen (Summer 2012). "The Human Animal". October. 141: 53–58. doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00097. JSTOR 41684276. S2CID 57570042.
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