Orchestra
Nielsen, Ville Jais (Danish, 1886–1949)
1941
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 64 cm, width 79 cm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
After her marriage to Jais Nielsen, much of the subject matter for Ville Jais-Nielsen’s art was found within the confines of the family home, first in their flat in Vesterbro, then in a detached house on Tjørnevej in Lyngby and from 1933 on Vingårds Allé in Hellerup. Their son, Henrik Jais-Nielsen (b. 1930), states that it was often the children’s lot to model for their mother. However, the family’s lively social life also provided suitable subject matter. Henrik Jais-Nielsen says: ‘... even while mother was still alive, my parents arranged a number of musical evenings with invited friends and acquaintances. My father’s co- worker for many years, Mogens Frese, played the violin, and a lady called Margrete Dahl played the piano. […] The guests were seated around the musicians in a relaxed manner, and a new friend of the family, Bjørn Wiinblad, would quite naturally lay on the floor to draw his poetic figures, which would later become a million-dollar business.’ The guests were primarily Jais Nielsen’s circle of acquaintances. Ville Jais-Nielsen got her own circle of artist friends during her exile in Sweden in 1943–45.
