Magazine "Klingen" 1919-1920 2 vols, 1 binding

The magazine was founded by Axel Salto during the final years of World War I, as a response to the general perception of art in Denmark at the time. Inspired by a trip to Paris in 1916 where Axel Salto met modernist painters such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, he launched the magazine Klingen with his own funds. It quickly became a clear and dynamic forum on the Danish art scene. The desire to renew Danish art and open up to international and modern ideas was spread through articles by Otto Gelsted, Poul Henningsen, and Harald Giersing with original illustrations by artists like Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Olaf Rude, William Scharff, and Axel Salto himself. The magazine was an important voice for the modernist art movement - especially for expressionism and cubism, and each issue was illustrated with many reproductions, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs in both black and white and colors.

The editorial team consisted of the ceramist Axel Salto, the writer Poul Uttenreitter, and from 1918 also the writer and critic Otto Gelsted.
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