Poul Berg

1921 - 1999

Poul Berg was autodidakt painter.

He was born - and grew up in the south part of Jutland, Denmark. As young was he trained as painter's assistant and went to an artschool in Aarhus, Denmark.

He met Kirsten Traasdahl Moeller there, and they got married in 1944.
They took residens in Aarhus where Poul Berg worked as car-sprayer. Their son Uffe was born there in 1945, and their daughter Ruth was born in 1949.

They moved to Binderup, Himmerland in 1952 - and later on to the town Aars, where he worked as decorator. He developed his talent as art-painter in the spare time, and illustrated motifs from the town and the surrounding area.

Their daughter Pia was born in the spring - 1956, and they moved later on that year to the town Sundswall in the Northern part of Sweden, where Poul Berg had got a job as car-sprayer. He continued as art-painter and painted motifs from the beautiful swedish nature. Their youngest daughter Eva was born there in 1959.

They went back to Denmark in 1961, and bought a village school, which was closed down, in Oester-Svenstrup - near the town Brovst. They fittered the 1st floor out as a studio and the ealier classrooms became exhibition-rooms - and later on was one of the neighbour's buildings for chicken-breed used for that purpose.

The North Sea and the beautiful landscape in Han-Herred became Poul Berg's favourite motif-world. He did especially prefer the motifs of the fishing boats, which were draged up on the beach. Poul Berg was known in the local community as the painter who went out in all kind of weather in his white- and yellow Volkswagen van, which he had fittered out as a miniature studio, and did his paintings on the spot.

Poul Berg and his paintings became populare, and he took part in a lot of exhibitions in Denmark and in foreign countries.

They sold the village school in 1978 and moved to the town Hobro. Poul and Kirsten Berg got divorced in 1980.

Poul Berg married Ellen Bang in 1981.They took residens different places around the town Fjerritslev and moved later on to the town Skagen, where they lived for a couple of years. They took residens in the town Loegstoer the last years of his life, where the illness at last stopped his untiring painting. He spent the last 1 1/2 year of his life on a residential home in Loegstoer, and he died there - 77 years old.

 

 

 

Poul Berg 1997

KUNST Nr. 7 1966 - Kunstnerparret Kirsten og Poul Berg.

 

Written and translated by Pia Berg