Karl Adser (1912-1995)  made his debute as an artist with an exhibition of watercolours and oil-paintings in 1942. And since then he had many exhibitions in Denmark and in the other Scandinavian countries. He had many decorative commissions and worked in addition as illustrator of schoolbooks and childrens books and in a long period as draughtsman of the magazines “Landsbladet” and “Politiken”.

Karl Adser was a hard working and diligent artist and painted his hole life. He was born in Grenå near the sea and in the middle of a beautiful danish scenery. And it was always the countryside, its beautyfullness and some times wildness, which gave him inspiration.  He expressed himself as a naturalist and often found the motives on small danish islands and in journeys in the Scandinavian countries, in the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The working method was to finish the drawing or the watercolour as he experienced it on the spot, and later on to work in oilcolours on canvas in his home.  

Most of his working life he was in addition employed at Bagsværd Gymnasium as a drawing teacher, and many of the lessons also became studies of the children and later on pictures, which today are hanging at the school.  Karl Adser was also a skilled portrait painter, especially his family and friends had their portraits made on canvas.

Jens Adser, november 2008

Contact: j.adser@dadlnet.dk