MARGRETHE II - Artistic activities


1970First experiments with linocuts. Designs Christmas stamp
1976Designs and embroiders green chasuble for Frederiksborg chapel
1977The book The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is published with the Queen's illustrations redrawn by the British artist Eric Fraser
1981Commences regular art classes with the Danish artist Mabel Rose. Translates Simone de Beauvoir's Tous les hommes sont mortels into Danish together with Prince Henrik
1983Designs stamp for Greenland
1984Designs motif for Christmas spoon for A. Michelsen, Court Jewellers, Copenhagen
1985Designs and embroiders chasuble for Kronborg chapel. Designs chasuble for Angmassalik church, Greenland
1986Designs and embroiders bishop's cape for Elsinore Cathedral
1987Impressionistic paintings in acrylic. Designs costumes for the TV-production of H.C. Andersen's The Shepherdess and the Chimney-sweep.
1988Exhibits for the very first time at Køge Skitsesamling in Denmark
1989Exhibition at Millesgården, Stockholm
1991Exhibits at Blaafarveværket in Norway. Décor and costumes for the ballet A Folk Tale, the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
1993Exhibits at Gl. Holtegaard near Copenhagen and Herning Art Museum. Starts to design chasubles for Aarhus Cathedral, completed in 1995
1988Exhibition at Chateau de Bourglinster in Luxembourg
1998Exhibits at Aarhus Kunstbygning, at the National Museum in Reykjavik, at Marienlyst, Elsinore and Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig in Flensborg
1999Exhibits together with the painter Dorte Foss at Galleri J.S.M. in Oslo. Bishop's cape for Aarhus Cathedral and wedding carpet for Frederiksborg chapel. Scenography in the form of découpages for animated film based on H. C. Andersen´s fairy tale The Snow Queen
2000Exhibition of découpages and costumes for The Snow Queen at H.C. Andersen's House in Odense and at the National Art Museum in Bucharest. Illustrations for Bible for use in Denmark, the Faeroes and Greenland
2001Décor and costumes for H. C. Andersen's Love in the Dustbin, the Pantomime Theatre, Tivoli, Copenhagen. Altarpiece for Skei mountain church in Østre Gausdal, Norway.
2002Joint exhibition with works by Queen Margrethe II and her Grandmother Crown Princess Margareta, at Sofiero, Helsingborg. Illustrates Seven Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen with découpages. First exhibition in Finland, at the Didrichsen Art Museum