Agnes Lunn

Agnes Lunn was a student of the painters F.C. Lund and Otto Bache, and at the beginning of the 1880s she attended Atelier Bonnat in Paris. She later trained as a sculptor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Art School for Women, which she herself had helped to establish in 1888.

Throughout her life, Agnes Lunn expressed herself in painting and sculpture, and her upbringing at her family’s estate, Knabstrup Manor, gave her a keen eye for depicting and modelling domestic and farm animals. She may be best known for her small figures in bronze, mainly Icelandic horses. However, landscapes and depictions of architecture were also part of her range of subject matter, and she was particularly inspired for such scenes when travelling abroad.

In addition to devoting herself to her art, Agnes Lunn showed great commitment to the cause of promoting women artists’ right to academic training and to exhibiting their work. She herself exhibited extensively in Denmark and abroad and was a role model for several of her contemporary female colleagues. Even so, Agnes Lunn never had a major artistic breakthrough.