Karl Bovin

Karl (Kalle) Christian Bovin (1907–1985) was a Danish painter who specialized in landscapes of Odsherred in the north west of Zealand. In the 1930s, he became the central member of the artists' colony known as the Odsherred Painters and was one of the founding members of the Corner artists association.

Born in Frederikshavn, Bovin was the eldest son of a stone mason. He was interested in art from an early age. In the 1920s, he cycled to the artists paradise Skagen in the north of Jutland to show Anna and Michael Ancher some of his early work. As a result of their encouragement, he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen from 1928 to 1931 where he studied under Sigurd Wandel and Aksel Jørgensen. Here he came together with a group of constructivists who relied largely on intuition and observation but was not happy with their approach.

He therefore joined fellow artist Kaj Ejstrup in Odsherred where there were excellent opportunities to concentrate on nature and landscape painting. Slowly other artists followed, forming the so-called Odsherredsmalerne (Odsherred Painters) who founded the Corner painters association. In 1932, Bovin was successful in having one of his landscapes bought by Statens Museum for Kunst, the Danish national gallery, reinforcing his reputation. In the early 1930s, he also spent some time with the Funen Painters, especially Johannes Larsen and Fritz Syberg establishing a relationship between the two artists' colonies.

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