Ejler Bille (1910-2004)

Aliases: Ejler Kristian Torbensen Bille

Professions: Painter; Sculptor; Lithographer

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  Ejler Bille: Composition with masks. Signed with pencil on the stretcher Ejler Bille 1945. Oil on canvas. 81 x 57 cm.

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  Ejler Bille: "Samosir Ø (Toba sø) Sumatra. Improvisation", jan 1982. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Oil on canvas. 56 x 46 cm.

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  Ejler Bille: Composition, 2001. Signed and dated on the reverse. Oil on canvas. 40 x 48 cm.

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  Ejler Bille (1910-2004)

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Ejler Bille Biography

(b Odder, nr Århus, 6 March 1910). Danish sculptor, painter and writer. He trained at the Kunsthåndværkerskole in Copenhagen with Bizzie Høyer from 1930 to 1932 and at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (1933). Bille made his début as a sculptor at the Kunstnernes Efterårsundstilling (Artists’ Autumn Exhibition) in Copenhagen in 1931. He became interested in abstract art very early in his career; in 1933, with the artist Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, he was one of the first artists in Denmark to exhibit abstract sculptures and paintings. In 1934 Bille was a founder-member with Richard Mortensen and Bjerke-Petersen of the artists’ group Linien (The Line), whose journal of the same name he also co-edited. During Bille’s many trips abroad in the 1930s he was particularly stimulated by the work of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Arp and Max Ernst. His originality was nevertheless clearly apparent in the early sculptures, which often used animals as subjects, for example Marten (1931) and Walking Form (1933–6; both Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst).

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