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BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY
1907 Birth
of Rasmus Skov, June 10, at Middelfart, Fyn County, Denmark to Nis Madsen Skov, owner of a ceramics factory,
and Ellen Holm Skov. Rasmus was the second of their five children.
1913 - 1918 Rasmus
Skov enters grade school and starts spending time at the ceramics factory,
where he gains experience in the technique of ceramics manufacture, glazing
and decoration.
1919 - 1924
The Skov family moves to Strib town, the ceramics factory is sold, and
Rasmus goes to high-school in Fredericia until 1924.
1924 - 1928 Skov
starts apprenticeship in decorative painting with C. E. Dam; is enrolled at
“Det Tekniske Selskab Skole”, Noerrevoldgade in Copenhagen with professors Peder Schou and Carl Einar
Madsen. He participates in the restorative redecoration of the former Royal
Palace Christiansborg.
1928 Skov graduates from DTSS with honors and
is awarded two study and travel scholarships and two silver medals in
decorative competitions from DTSS and Haandverkerforeningen; meets Carl
Lund, chief painter, “Det Ny Teater” and the painter Poul Hoem; was
enlisted in the Danish army for peace-time tour-of-duty.
1929 Skov
travels to Zurich, and visits the abstract art exhibition at
Zurich Kunsthaus; works during the summer in Switzerland with decorative painting and then spends the
winter painting in Cagnes, Southern
France.
1930 Works in Luzern, Switzerland during the summer. Travels with Anker
Noerregaard to see the World Expo in Barcelona. Paints
for six months in Haut-de-Cagnes, France and meets Vilhelm Lundstroem in Cagnes-Sur-Mer;
[influenced by Neo-impressionism and Cezanne, he paints 16+ oils].
1931 Skov works under contract at Isola de
Brissago and Lugano then visits “Exposition Coloniale” in Paris and Geneva and travels to Rome, Venice, Florence and Pisa to study Italian Renaissance art. Paints 14+
oils; summers in Strib and meets Isabella Borre Huus; enrolls in the fall
at the decorative arts “Meisterschule” of the Handwerkskammer von
Oberbayern in Munich and studies “Die Neue Sachlikeit” with Georg
Schrimpf and Marius Hammann.
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