Elise Konstantin-Hansen worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Elise Konstantin-Hansen as Danish painter and autobiographer (1858-1946).
Elise Konstantin-Hansen was born at Frederiksberg in 1858. Her recorded nationality is Denmark.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter, autobiographer and ceramicist.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Denmark shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Elise Konstantin-Hansen died in 1946, aged 88. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
