Person

Ursula Reuter Christiansen

Directing · Born 1943-02-13 · Trier, Germany

Ursula Reuter Christiansen is a German-Danish artist whose work oscillates between symbolism and mythology, desire and hatred, beauty and abysses. Throughout her practice, she incorporates various media, from painting, filmmaking and performance to ceramics and sculpture. Having studied literature in Marburg, DE, she later graduated from the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in 1969, where she studied under Professor Joseph Beuys and became active in the emerging women’s movement, which was to have a strong influence on her oeuvre. From 1992 to 1996, Reuter Christiansen worked as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, DE, and as the first female professor of painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1997 to 2006. She is considered one of Denmark’s most influential artists in the post-war period, whose works are widely represented across Denmark – in art institutions, as well as public commissions, and is one of the founding members of Kunsthal 44Møn.

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  The Search

  Director

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  The Executioner

  1973

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  The Red Forest: An Oracle in Nine Illustrations

  1987

• Three Girls and a Pig

  Director

• Else Kant

  Animation

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  Fargo. Slump I film

  1969

• 1987The Red Forest: An Oracle in Nine Illustrations
• 1978Else KantAnimation
• 1973The Executioner
• 1972Three Girls and a PigDirector
• 1970The SearchDirector
• 1969Fargo. Slump I film