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▪ 2008Danish artistborn Sept. 23, 1913 , Copenhagen, Den.died Feb. 20, 2007, Copenhagenwas a significant figure in the short-lived (1949–51) but influential COBRA (an acronym for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) group of Expressionist painters, with whom he exhibited some of his powerful, brilliantly coloured art. In the early 1970s when Copenhagen declined Pedersen's offered donation of some 3,000 drawings, paintings, and sculptures because the city had nowhere to house the collection, the town of Herning agreed to build a museum. The Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt Museum, dedicated to his work and that of his first wife, a fellow COBRA painter, opened in Herning in 1976, two years after Alfelt's death. In January 2007 Pedersen and his second wife donated 35 paintings to the Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark's national gallery.
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