Helhesten

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Helhesten
CategoriesArts magazine
Founder
Founded1941
First issueApril 1941
Final issueNovember 1944
Country Denmark
Based in Copenhagen
Language Danish
OCLC 154002703

Helhesten (Danish : The Hell-Horse) was an arts and literary magazine which was published between 1941 and 1944 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was one of the leading publications during World War II in the region. Its title was a reference to a figure in the Norse mythology. [1]

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History and profile

Helhesten was first published in Copenhagen in April 1941 during the Nazi occupation of the city. [2] Its founders were Asger Jorn, a painter, and Robert Dahlmann, an architect. [3] They were part of the Danish Harvest group. [4]

The magazine adopted an avant-garde approach and opposed the Nazi propaganda. [2] Its main contributors who were supporters of German expressionism, dada and surrealism included Ejler Bille, Henry Heerup, Egill Jacobsen and Carl-Henning Pedersen. [2] They were also interested in the art of the banal. [1] It mostly featured articles on art theory, non-Western work, literature, poetry, film, architecture, and photography in addition to the reviews of art exhibitions and biographies of Danish artists. [2] Asger Jorn's translation of the work by Franz Kafka was serialized in Helhesten which was the first translation of Kafka into Danish. [5] The magazine produced a total of nine issues before its closure in November 1944. [4] [5] It was succeeded by another magazine entitled Cobra . [4]

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