Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen

Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen
2025-01-21 09:04:48 • By Katrina Finch0 comments
Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen. Photo copyright KammaMogensen.

It is with great sadness that we must announce the death, on 16 January 2025, of our friend Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, weaver, ethnographer, museum curator, textile researcher, author …

Tove’s article on Gerda Henning, Karen Finch’s teacher of weaving at the Copenhagen School for Decorative Arts in the 1940s, can be found here. Up to the very end of her life, Tove was engaged in a research project about Kirsten and John Becker, two of Gerda Henning’s most illustrious students, who were at the School at the same time as Karen, during the early 1940s. Tove had made extensive use of Karen’s artistically designed lecture notes from that time, which we had been very pleased to lend her from Karen’s archives, knowing how much Karen respected and admired Tove. We intend to publish a more developed tribute to Tove’s life and work in due course, but for now we want to convey our deepest sympathy to her husband Svend and her daughters Cecilia, Amanda and grandson Vilfred.

Alan, Katrina, Joshua and Jacob