#helhesten

[i12bent]

Else Alfelt (Sept. 16, 1910 - 1974) was an important, autodidact Danish artist, associated with various movements through her life. She started out as a naturalist painter, but soon went abstract under the influence of Surrealism and the Danish group Linien (The Line) which brought French Surrealism to Denmark in the mid 1930s. During WW II she was part of Asger Jorn’s Helhesten (The Hell-Horse) group, leading into her association with and membership of CoBrA.

She was fascinated with mountain landscapes and increasingly spiritual and even esoteric in her use of colors, shapes and light.

Above: August-nat. Dolomitterne, 1951 - aquarelle (SMK)

#art #danish artist #else alfelt #landscape painting #expressionism #mountain scenery #dolomites #1950s #helhesten #surrealism #linien #asger jorn #cobra

[gianttankeh]

Hannah Ellul / Jules Rawlinson / Off Brand (Firas Khnaisser & Ali Robertson) at The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh: 30/6/22.

Firas is getting better at making posters so this warranted re-posting we reckon. You can get tickets here.

#hannah ellul #jules rawlinson #firas khnaisser #ali robertson #off brand #tfeh #giant tank #helhesten #human heads #on fire #superpang #raw green rust #usurper #noise #noises #avant #weirdo #experimental music #electronics #electrocacoustic #psykick dancehall #free impov #edinburgh #scotland #waverley bar #self taught sharpie master

[horses-in-art-history]

Lorenz Frølich, Udkast til Helhesten, 1870-1873, Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk, public domain.

(Picture source for Udkast til Helhesten)

#lorenz frølich #art #horses #art history #horse #horse art #drawings #smk #statens museum for kunst #danish national gallery #danish art #danish artist #1800s art #19th century art #1870s #1870s art #pegasus #spooky art #halloween aesthetic

[metallianvalidor]

⚔️🛡️ EPIC & FANTASY 🛡️ ⚔️

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#metallianvalidor #epic metal

[lowkeynando]

HELHESTEN AND HELHESTEN CLONES AND HELHESTENES AND HELHESTENES CLONES

[sinistercarnival]

Favorite Danish folklore I grew up with

Lygtemænd (the lantern men): Like will-o’-the-wisp, jack o’lantern and similar... Nobody really knows who or what they are. They are small creatures with lights (probably lanterns) that are moving around in marshes and swampy fields at night. Never follow them. If you follow them, you’ll never be seen again. They will probably lead you further out into the marshes where you drown. Don’t even look at them, because you may get the urge to follow the light. If you’re lost, you can however pay them (by leaving money at the roadside) to lead you back home - if you’re brave enough.

Åmanden (the river man): He lives in the rivers and lakes, and prevents overflow and floods, but needs an annual human sacrifice (aka drowned people) in return. He looks like a very beautiful young man, but has sharp teeth. If he hasn’t got his sacrifice, he will lure people into the river. He can sound like a crying baby, to make you go search for an abandoned baby at the shores, or he plays the violin so beautifully that you will follow the sound into the water, where he will drown you. Never go near a river at night or dawn!

Helhesten (the hell horse): So the first soul buried on a new grave yard will resurrect and haunt the grave yard. Because of this, the first soul buried was often not a person but a living animal, most often a horse. This hellhorse has three legs, sometimes it’s beheaded, and it brings people illness and death. When you see it, you will die. If you hear a horse neigh or stomp on a grave yard, don’t look up! Never! Never go to a graveyard at night.

De underjordiske from Bornholm (the underground ones): basically small trolls. They live on the island Bornholm in mounds, hills, cliffs or big rocks. They are small creatures, very smart and have an almost human-like farmer lifestyle. They are usually friendly and peaceful, but may be troublesome, if you dig in their mound or e.g. let your animals walk around on their home. They can also kidnap, or switch your baby out with one of their people and make him look like the baby. The new baby will become more and more ugly, stop growing, never learn to speak and eat A LOT. The only way to expose it, is to tell it something so stupid and ridiculous that it gets flabbergasted. If you visit the island ask a local - almost everyone knows somebody that met the underjordiske or had an encounter themselves.

Nisser: kind of small household gods. They are little dwarf-like creatures that live hidden in your house, typically on the loft or in the stables, if you have a farm. Usually they are helpful and some sort of nice warden, but if you treat them bad, they may trouble you. You should leave a bowl of rice pudding for them on the loft, especially at Christmas. Some may also be humorous and hide your stuff, so you think you replaced it, then they are called Drillenisse (mocking nisse).

Elverfolket (elves): They live in forests, glades and mounds and are known for their beauty and their feasts. The very beautiful elver women will typically dance around their mound looking outwards in misty nights, so you can see their beauty, but in their backs they are hollow like an old tree trunk. If you join their dance and feast, they will never let you go. Stay away from them and from their mounds and they will be peaceful. Their king is very powerful, but if you’re respectful and keep the elverfolks homes safe, he may in return bless your land.

Mosekonen (the marsh witch): She is an troll-like woman who lives in a hidden cabin in the marshes. She is known for brewing something in a big kettle, but nobody really knows what. Probably a special brew for their party’s (e.g. for Walpurgis Night). You will know that she is brewing, when there is fog and mist over the marshes. She gets help from the Lygtemænd with her fire, so you shouldn’t go out there to find her, as you may drown.

Havfolk/ nøkker (sea people): Human like creatures (like mermaids) that live in the sea and might have fish-like features like a fish tail. The women are very beautiful, sing very lovely, and may lure men into the water and (not necessarily willful) drown them as they take them into their underwater home. The havfolk may come out of the water and look human, but they will always be wet. The men can transform into a big black or white horse that comes out of the sea at night and rushes along the beach. They may lure you to climb and ride, but will then ride directly into the sea and drown you. Stay away from the sea at night to be safe, and if you hear someone singing at the sea, quickly cover your ears with your hands!

#danish folklore #danish myths #nordic folklore #fae #fair folk #nature spirits #scandinavian folklore #folklore #myths #elves #nøkken #nisse #helhesten #will-o-the-wisp #witches

[auslannerung]

“Helhesten” (Ghost Horse), the Danish avant-garde group of artists founded in Copenhagen in 1941 by leading modernists of the period. Among them were the painters Ejler Bille (1910-2004), Egill Jacobsen (1910-1998), Asger Jorn (1914-1973) and Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913-2007). They met as a group, created art, exhibited, and published a journal during the German occupation. The founders of Helhesten were active in Paris and Germany before the war and were passionately engaged in pursuing aspects of surrealism, dadaism and German expressionism further. During the war, their reinterpretation of these directions in art as well as their interest in Nordic mythology, ethnographic artefacts and children's art contributed to creating a thoroughly unique style of painting that laid the foundation for the post-war Cobra movement in which many of the Helhesten artists would later participate.

#Helhesten #danish art #ejler bille #egill jacobsen #asger jorn #carl-henning pedersen #nordic mythology

[cdlistening]

Faux Amis, '(s/t)' LP (Zero Jardins)

Monday, January 24, 2022, 7:39pm (full listen)

I haven't heard this great album in ages, and when I first did, it was when I very into some of the bands that create its constituent parts, namely Chora, Helhesten, and Motherfucking (if Hunter Gracchus was there, it'd be a real party); it was like being a teenager who's into Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and discovering the existence of Temple of The Dog. The album is just as great as I remember, a bewildering pileup of electric guitars, strings, some reedy horns, drums, and percussion, all recorded modestly but sounding thick and wonderful. The only thing I found a little surprising upon this revisit was the amount of groove-based sections on here; it's not exactly funky, but I honestly don't remember it being as much of a toetapper as it is.

#faux amis #zero jardins #chora #Motherfucking #Helhesten #hunter gracchus

[waitecapstone]

Exploring Fantasy and Escapism

@kittyshortsh

Charlotte Salomon

Slimen El Kamel (Tunisian, 1983) - Festive (2017)

Gerhard Munthe (Norwegian, 1849 - 1929)

Horses of the Sea, tapestry, 1907

Helhesten, 1892

In the Giant’s Lair, 1892

[hapalopus]

Liglammet, gravsoen, and helhesten are friends<3

#folklore #scandinavian folklore #danish folklore

[alastors-radioshow]

Tell us about a myth/folktale/urban legend of your culture.

Really unusual OOC mun questions

//OHOHO y'all better strap in for this one~

Helhesten(the Hel Horse) is, according to the legend, a ghostly, three-legged horse that carries the omen of death, illness and despair. Supposedly, it's the ghost of a horse that has been buried alive on a graveyard, when said church was built, to make sure that nothing bad would befall the church.

According to the tales, if you saw this horse, it was an omen that either you, a family member, or a friend would die soon. It's very specific that it was the sight of the horse that was the trigger, so if you heard the sound of a three-legged horse approaching, you had to be quick to shut your eyes and get out of there.

#::In the Shadows:: - Anonymous #alastors-radioshow #::Out Of Jambalaya:: #OOC #The Mun Speaks #//Y'all this story freaked me tf out as a kid

[i12bent]

Danish artist Asger Jorn (March 3, 1914 - 1973) was one of the three most important Danish painters in the 20th century. He studied in Paris in the 1930s with Fernand Léger in the summer and at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen in the winter.

He co-founded the seminal European artists’ group CoBrA in 1948. His later work moved from avant-garde to abstract expressionism…

Above: Le Bourdon, 1938 - oil on canvas (sold by Bruun Rasmussen in 2020 for Dkr. 260.000)

#art #danish painter #asger jorn #1930s #abstract art #cobra #fernand léger #danish royal academy of fine arts #helhesten #situationist international #bruun rasmussen #oil on canvas

[gianttankeh]

Hannah Ellul / Jules Rawlinson / Off Brand (Firas Khnaisser & Ali Robertson) at The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh: 30/6/22.

TFEH presents another experimental social for the wilfully socially distant and the plain anti-social. You can find out more & purchase tickets to this show here.

#hannah ellul #jules rawlinson #off brand #human heads #white death #helhesten #psykick dancehall #on fire #superpang #raw green rust #firas khnaisser #ali robertson #usurper #giant tank #noise #noises #free improv #experimental music #electroacoustic #electronic #edinburgh #scotland #avant #weirdo #in the summertime when the weather is hot-ish

[horses-in-art-history]

Hans Smidth, Illustration til St. St. Blicher: "Mowns". Helhesten og Mowns; f.n.: dans i bondestue, 1884-1885, Statens Museum for Kunst, open.smk.dk, public domain.

(Picture source for Illustration til St. St. Blicher: "Mowns". Helhesten og Mowns; f.n.: dans i bondestue)

#Hans Smidth #art #horses #art history #horse #horse art #spooky #halloween aesthetic #illustration #old illustration #19th century art #1800s art #1880s art #danish art #danish national gallery #danish artist #smk #spooky art

[werewolfen]

"Hellhorse or horse from hell, also called church horse or corpse horse" Helhesten is a creature from Scandinavian folklore. The 3 legged, ghostly horse is a sign of death and disease. If you're lucky, you hear the clip-clip-clop, clip-clip-clop of the hooves, just in time to close your eyes, cause if you see it, your death is sure to follow shortly. A church could not be built if a white horse wasn't offered first, buried alive beneath it. Helhesten roams graveyards at night. It's best to stay away, if you want to stay alive. __________ When I was 11-12 years old, I loved reading books about ghosts and folklore creatures. I found a book about Helhesten at the library one day, and it scared the crap out of me for months, I was never able to forget it, and it remains one of my fave myths today

#art #artists on tumblr #horror #spooky #halloween #scary #horror art #folklore #scandinavia

[topios]

Say hi to the Mayhem girls, loosely based on three Danish death omens. Cause black dogs just aren’t as fun as assorted farm animals.

#artists on tumblr #creatures #anthro #folklore #omens #art by me #guess which one's the ghost of an animal sacrifice #if you guessed both liglam and helhest you're right #apparently building new churches demanded a certain measure of blood and crippling back in the day