| He is a trained
accountant, has a good ear for languages and has studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Aarhus and spent 9 months at an art school in the Black
Forest in Southern Germany.
So evidently, it has been hard for him to choose a
profession. Right now, his art is given top priority, and there is a good
explanation for that: In his line of ancestors you will find well-known
painters like Christian Zacho and Peder Mønsted.
Even though he is very dedicated to his art at the
moment, he is very much aware that it will not pay the rent – not yet
anyway. So in the meantime, he is on the lookout for a new job within his
civil profes- sion.
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Lars Stounberg with some of his watercolour paintings.
(Photo: Lars Juul).
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| But the 28-year old
Lars Stounberg is also very eager to show how far he has developed his
talent – thus the current exhibition of watercolours at Horsens City
Hall.
All his motifs are taken from the snow-clad
mountains in the Black Forest, and they give us an excellent indication of
his abilities within this field.
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Like everybody else,
he has been drawing since he was a child, but unlike most of us he has
taken his
interest to a more serious level. Naturally, he was totally absorbed by
the German scenery.
And he has managed to depict some of the atmosphere of
the
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mountains and captured the skiers racing downhill.
Watercolours provide the opportunity of using pale and
faded colours making his motifs almost lyric. The flowers of the Black Forest have also awoken his sense of poetry – and all this has resulted in
a small but beautiful collection.
(P.N.)
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