Galerie Birch: UFFE CHRISTOFFERSEN

UFFE CHRISTOFFERSEN

Born 1947 in Denmark

Painter and graphic artist

Education

1968-73 – student at Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, under Professor Harald Leth and Professor Egill Jacobsen

1973-75 – attends 2-year course at Art Teaching Department of Academy of Art, under Professor Helge Bertram

1975-83 – employed in the Laboratory for Paint Science

1983-87 – teacher at the Jutland Academy of Art in Aarhus

Biography

Uffe Christoffersen had his debut at the Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition in 1971, he where a member of the artistic group Violet Sol 1974-88.

Uffe moved in 1990 to south of France, to a little village Fontareches in Provence together with his wife, Annette Hoff-Jessen, who also is a painter. Uffe Christoffersen is clearly an expressive painter. His distinguished weapon is the colour and here, he is scientific in his passion. His style is a “devil-may-care”, vividly coloured and seducing form of new-expressionism. Uffe Christoffersen has a spontaneous and energetic painterly manner, as not seen since the COBRA painters turned everything upside-down.

The motifs are often tigers or mythological figures.

Selected exhibitions

Henning Larsens Art Shop, Copenhagen

Galerie Birkdam, Copenhagen

Anette Birchs Kunsthandel, Copenhagen 1990

Galerie Birch, Copenhagen 1995-97-02-04-05-07

Galerie Nord, Randers

Galerie Gl. Lejre,

Galleri Torso, Odense

Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding

Enrico Trizio, Bari, Italy

Galeriet, Ikast