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Emilie Demant Hatt

April 13, 2024

Emilie Demant Hatt (sometimes Emilie Demant-Hatt, or Emilie Demant; née Emilie Demant Hansen) (21 January 1873 – 4 December 1958) was a Danish artist, writer, ethnographer, and folklorist. Her area of interest and expertise was the culture and way of life of Sámi people.

Emilie Demant Hatt
Emilie Demant Hatt in 1940 at a Nordiska museet event.
Born(1873-01-21)January 21, 1873
Selde, in northern Jutland, Denmark
DiedDecember 4, 1958(1958-12-04) (aged 85)
OccupationPainter, writer, ethnographer
Notable works"With the Lapps in the High Mountains"
Website
www.emiliedemanthatt.com

Early years edit

Emilie Demant Hansen was born in 1873 to a merchant's family in Selde, by the Limfjord in northern Jutland, Denmark. From the age of fourteen to seventeen she had a romantic relationship with Carl Nielsen whom she met in 1887 in Selde. Expecting to become engaged, Nielsen had a psychological crisis over their relationship. Nielsen was living at the time with Emilie's uncle and aunt in Copenhagen. Emilie Demant Hatt went on to preserve several original early music manuscripts of Nielsen's.[1]

From 1898 to 1906, she studied painting and drawing in Copenhagen with Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplau, at the Women's Academy of Art,[2] a school within the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.[3]

While an art student, she changed her last name to Demant. In 1904, Demant and her sister took a train trip to northern Scandinavia. It was here on the iron ore train in Swedish Lapland that they met a Sami wolf hunter, Johan Turi (1854–1936).[4] The encounter had a dramatic effect on Demant who was very interested in Sami culture and their way of life. While relying on an interpreter, Turi told Demant that he wanted to write a book about "Lapps," while Demant stated, “I have always wanted to be a nomad.”[2] Demant spent the next several years learning the Northern Sami language at the University of Copenhagen with the linguist Vilhelm Thomsen[5] while continuing her painting studies.

Career edit

In 1907, she returned to northern Scandinavia and lived in a Sami siida in the Swedish mountains outside Kiruna with Sari and Aslak Turi, Johan Turi's brother. She migrated with them and other Sami in the winter and spring of 1907 and 1908, to Jukkasjärvi[6] and from Karesuando to Tromsdalen, where she spent the summer of 1908. Though untrained as an ethnographer, she kept a journal, took photographs, and sketched and painted what she saw. While male anthropologists had visited this area previously, Demant was the first woman to have lived so closely with the Sámi.[5] Demant was also the first investigator to discover the Sami mothers perform infant head moulding.[7]

In the fall of 1908, Demant spent 6–8 weeks with Johan Turi in a mountain cabin where she assisted Turi with his book Muitalus sámiid birra ("The Book of Lapps"). She took the notebooks in which Turi had written his book in Sami back with her to Denmark. She then transcribed the text, translated it into Danish, and organized it. She was assisted by Anders Pedersen and Vilhelm Thomsen. The book was funded by the Swedish mining director, Hjalmar Lundbohm. Bogen om lapperne ("Johan Turi’s Book of Lapland") was published in 1910 in a bilingual Sami-Danish edition in 1910, and in 1931 as an English language edition.

Demant made another ethnographic visit to Sweden in 1910, where she lived in Glen with the South Sami couple Marta and Nils Nilsson. In 1913, she published Med lapperne i højfjeldet (translation: "With the Lapps in the High Mountains"), an account of Sami customs based on her one-year nomadic travels in 1907–08.[2]

Demant Hatt painted all her life and exhibited her works at art exhibitions.[8] She wrote additional works about the Sami and produced a series of paintings focused on Lapland. The collection is located at Stockholm's Nordic Museum. Other Demant-Hatt paintings are located at the Skive Museum of Art.[9] A substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Dement Hatt during the period of 1915–1924.[10]

In 1915, she was awarded the Barnard Medal Award.[11] She was awarded the 1940 Arthur Hazelius medal in Stockholm for her Sami research. She was a member of the Geographical Society of Finland.

The American translator and editor Barbara Sjoholm began researching Emilie Demant Hatt's life around 2002. She has since translated two of Demant Hatt's works, With the Lapps in the High Mountains (2013) and By the Fire (2019). Sjoholm published a biography of Demant Hatt in 2017: Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer.

Personal life edit

Demant had a close relationship and friendship with the Swedish geologist and chemist Hjalmar Lundbohm whom she met in Jukkasjärvi in 1907. Her artist friends were Christine Swane and Olga Lau, with whom she attended the Royal Academy of Art.

In September 1911, she married Aage Gudmund Hatt,[12] a professor of cultural geography at the University of Copenhagen.

Emilie Demant Hatt wrote her autobiography, Foraarsbølger ("Spring Torrents") 1949. On her death in 1958, the manuscript was submitted to the Royal Danish Library and was subject to a 25-year rule. It was forgotten until 2002, when Johan Fellow discovered in the archives. It was published in 2002.[1] Two novels by Barbara Sjoholm based on the relationship between Carl Nielsen and Emilie Demant Hatt, Fossil Island and a sequel The Former World, were published in 2015. Fossil Island received best Indie Award from the Historical Novel Society.

Selected works edit

  • (1913), Med Lapperne i høfjeldet (Danish language)
  • (1918), Die lappländischen Nomaden in Skandinavien
  • (1920), Lappish Texts written by Johan Turi and Per Turi. With the cooperation of K. D. Wiklund, edited by Emilie Demant-Hatt (English language)
  • (1922), Ved Ilden : eventyr og historier fra Lapland (Danish language)
  • (2013) With the Lapps in the High Mountains, University of Wisconsin Press
  • (2015) Fossil Island and The Former World, Cedar Street Editions
  • (2017) Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer (University of Minnesota Press)
  • (2019) By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends, University of Minnesota Press

References edit

  1. ^ a b Fellow, John (March 2003). . Nordic Sounds. 1. fellow.dk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  2. ^ a b c . barbarasjoholm.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
  3. ^ National Research Council (U.S.); Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1938). International directory of anthropologists. Current anthropology resource series. National Academies. p. 142.
  4. ^ Kingsley, John Donald (2005). "The Antioch Review". 63: 252. Retrieved 20 March 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ a b Sjoholm, Barbara (July–August 2008). . Orion Magazine. Great Barrington, MA, USA. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  6. ^ Hansegård, Nils Erik (1967). Recent Finnish loanwords in Jukkasjärvi Lappish. Studia Uralica et Altaica Upsaliensia. Vol. 3 (Digitized May 14, 2008 ed.). Almqvist och Wiksell. p. 46.
  7. ^ Hatt, Gudmund (1915). "Artificial Moulding of the Infant's Head among the Scandinavian Lapps". American Anthropologist. 17 (2). American Anthropological Association: 245–256. doi:10.1525/aa.1915.17.2.02a00030.
  8. ^ Kuutma, Kristin (2006). Folklore Fellows (ed.). Collaborative representations: interpreting the creation of a Sámi ethnography and a Seto epic, Issue 289. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. p. 86. ISBN 9789514109690.
  9. ^ . skivekunstmuseum.dk. Archived from the original on 22 February 2006. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  10. ^ Gilberg, Rolf (2009). "Eurasian costumes". In Anne Lisbeth Schmidt & Karen Brynjolf Pedersen (ed.). Skin Clothing from the North: Abstracts from the seminar held at the National Museum of Denmark, November 26–27, 2009 (PDF). The National Museum of Denmark. p. 36. ISBN 978-87-7602-134-4.[dead link]
  11. ^ Catalogue (Digitized Dec 18, 2008 ed.). Columbia College. 1915. p. 497.
  12. ^ Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1910 (1910). Secretary's third report (Digitized Jun 4, 2008 ed.). Crimson Printing Co. p. 375.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Further reading edit

  • Kuutma, K. (January 1, 2003). "Collaborative Ethnography Before Its Time: Johan Turi and Emilie Demant Hatt"[permanent dead link]. Scandinavian Studies : Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 75, 2, 165.
  • Sjoholm, Barbara. "The Autumn Migration," excerpt translated from Danish to English from Emilie Demant Hatt's "With the Lapps in the High Mountains" in Natural Bridge (Fall, 2008) .
  • Sjoholm, Barbara. Excerpts translated from Danish to English from Emilie Demant Hatt's "With the Lapps in the High Mountains" in The Antioch Review (Spring, 2008).
  • Sjoholm, Barbara. Excerpts translated from Danish to English from "With the Lapps in the High Mountains" by Emilie Demant Hatt in Two Lines XIV (Winter, 2007).
  • Sjoholm, Barbara. (Fall 2010). "How Muittalus Samid Birra was Created" in Scandinavian Studies: Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 82, 3, 313.
  • Sjoholm, Barbara. (Fall 2012). "Remapping the Tourist Road" in Harvard Review 42.

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Emilie Demant Hatt sometimes Emilie Demant Hatt or Emilie Demant nee Emilie Demant Hansen 21 January 1873 4 December 1958 was a Danish artist writer ethnographer and folklorist Her area of interest and expertise was the culture and way of life of Sami people Emilie Demant HattEmilie Demant Hatt in 1940 at a Nordiska museet event Born 1873 01 21 January 21 1873Selde in northern Jutland DenmarkDiedDecember 4 1958 1958 12 04 aged 85 OccupationPainter writer ethnographerNotable works With the Lapps in the High Mountains Websitewww wbr emiliedemanthatt wbr com Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Selected works 5 References 6 Further readingEarly years editEmilie Demant Hansen was born in 1873 to a merchant s family in Selde by the Limfjord in northern Jutland Denmark From the age of fourteen to seventeen she had a romantic relationship with Carl Nielsen whom she met in 1887 in Selde Expecting to become engaged Nielsen had a psychological crisis over their relationship Nielsen was living at the time with Emilie s uncle and aunt in Copenhagen Emilie Demant Hatt went on to preserve several original early music manuscripts of Nielsen s 1 From 1898 to 1906 she studied painting and drawing in Copenhagen with Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplau at the Women s Academy of Art 2 a school within the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 3 While an art student she changed her last name to Demant In 1904 Demant and her sister took a train trip to northern Scandinavia It was here on the iron ore train in Swedish Lapland that they met a Sami wolf hunter Johan Turi 1854 1936 4 The encounter had a dramatic effect on Demant who was very interested in Sami culture and their way of life While relying on an interpreter Turi told Demant that he wanted to write a book about Lapps while Demant stated I have always wanted to be a nomad 2 Demant spent the next several years learning the Northern Sami language at the University of Copenhagen with the linguist Vilhelm Thomsen 5 while continuing her painting studies Career editIn 1907 she returned to northern Scandinavia and lived in a Sami siida in the Swedish mountains outside Kiruna with Sari and Aslak Turi Johan Turi s brother She migrated with them and other Sami in the winter and spring of 1907 and 1908 to Jukkasjarvi 6 and from Karesuando to Tromsdalen where she spent the summer of 1908 Though untrained as an ethnographer she kept a journal took photographs and sketched and painted what she saw While male anthropologists had visited this area previously Demant was the first woman to have lived so closely with the Sami 5 Demant was also the first investigator to discover the Sami mothers perform infant head moulding 7 In the fall of 1908 Demant spent 6 8 weeks with Johan Turi in a mountain cabin where she assisted Turi with his book Muitalus samiid birra The Book of Lapps She took the notebooks in which Turi had written his book in Sami back with her to Denmark She then transcribed the text translated it into Danish and organized it She was assisted by Anders Pedersen and Vilhelm Thomsen The book was funded by the Swedish mining director Hjalmar Lundbohm Bogen om lapperne Johan Turi s Book of Lapland was published in 1910 in a bilingual Sami Danish edition in 1910 and in 1931 as an English language edition Demant made another ethnographic visit to Sweden in 1910 where she lived in Glen with the South Sami couple Marta and Nils Nilsson In 1913 she published Med lapperne i hojfjeldet translation With the Lapps in the High Mountains an account of Sami customs based on her one year nomadic travels in 1907 08 2 Demant Hatt painted all her life and exhibited her works at art exhibitions 8 She wrote additional works about the Sami and produced a series of paintings focused on Lapland The collection is located at Stockholm s Nordic Museum Other Demant Hatt paintings are located at the Skive Museum of Art 9 A substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark s Ethnography Department was collected by Dement Hatt during the period of 1915 1924 10 In 1915 she was awarded the Barnard Medal Award 11 She was awarded the 1940 Arthur Hazelius medal in Stockholm for her Sami research She was a member of the Geographical Society of Finland The American translator and editor Barbara Sjoholm began researching Emilie Demant Hatt s life around 2002 She has since translated two of Demant Hatt s works With the Lapps in the High Mountains 2013 and By the Fire 2019 Sjoholm published a biography of Demant Hatt in 2017 Black Fox A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt Artist and Ethnographer Personal life editDemant had a close relationship and friendship with the Swedish geologist and chemist Hjalmar Lundbohm whom she met in Jukkasjarvi in 1907 Her artist friends were Christine Swane and Olga Lau with whom she attended the Royal Academy of Art In September 1911 she married Aage Gudmund Hatt 12 a professor of cultural geography at the University of Copenhagen Emilie Demant Hatt wrote her autobiography Foraarsbolger Spring Torrents 1949 On her death in 1958 the manuscript was submitted to the Royal Danish Library and was subject to a 25 year rule It was forgotten until 2002 when Johan Fellow discovered in the archives It was published in 2002 1 Two novels by Barbara Sjoholm based on the relationship between Carl Nielsen and Emilie Demant Hatt Fossil Island and a sequel The Former World were published in 2015 Fossil Island received best Indie Award from the Historical Novel Society Selected works edit 1913 Med Lapperne i hofjeldet Danish language 1918 Die lapplandischen Nomaden in Skandinavien 1920 Lappish Texts written by Johan Turi and Per Turi With the cooperation of K D Wiklund edited by Emilie Demant Hatt English language 1922 Ved Ilden eventyr og historier fra Lapland Danish language 2013 With the Lapps in the High Mountains University of Wisconsin Press 2015 Fossil Island and The Former World Cedar Street Editions 2017 Black Fox A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt Artist and Ethnographer University of Minnesota Press 2019 By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends University of Minnesota PressReferences edit a b Fellow John March 2003 Torrents of spring Carl Nielsen s missing years Nordic Sounds 1 fellow dk Archived from the original on 2016 03 03 Retrieved 2010 07 24 a b c Emilie Demant Hatt barbarasjoholm com Archived from the original on 7 July 2011 Retrieved 24 July 2010 National Research Council U S Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research 1938 International directory of anthropologists Current anthropology resource series National Academies p 142 Kingsley John Donald 2005 The Antioch Review 63 252 Retrieved 20 March 2018 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b Sjoholm Barbara July August 2008 With the Lapps in the High Mountains Orion Magazine Great Barrington MA USA Archived from the original on 2008 09 06 Retrieved 2010 07 24 Hansegard Nils Erik 1967 Recent Finnish loanwords in Jukkasjarvi Lappish Studia Uralica et Altaica Upsaliensia Vol 3 Digitized May 14 2008 ed Almqvist och Wiksell p 46 Hatt Gudmund 1915 Artificial Moulding of the Infant s Head among the Scandinavian Lapps American Anthropologist 17 2 American Anthropological Association 245 256 doi 10 1525 aa 1915 17 2 02a00030 Kuutma Kristin 2006 Folklore Fellows ed Collaborative representations interpreting the creation of a Sami ethnography and a Seto epic Issue 289 Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia p 86 ISBN 9789514109690 The collection skivekunstmuseum dk Archived from the original on 22 February 2006 Retrieved 25 July 2010 Gilberg Rolf 2009 Eurasian costumes In Anne Lisbeth Schmidt amp Karen Brynjolf Pedersen ed Skin Clothing from the North Abstracts from the seminar held at the National Museum of Denmark November 26 27 2009 PDF The National Museum of Denmark p 36 ISBN 978 87 7602 134 4 dead link Catalogue Digitized Dec 18 2008 ed Columbia College 1915 p 497 Harvard College 1780 Class of 1910 1910 Secretary s third report Digitized Jun 4 2008 ed Crimson Printing Co p 375 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Further reading editKuutma K January 1 2003 Collaborative Ethnography Before Its Time Johan Turi and Emilie Demant Hatt permanent dead link Scandinavian Studies Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 75 2 165 Sjoholm Barbara The Autumn Migration excerpt translated from Danish to English from Emilie Demant Hatt s With the Lapps in the High Mountains in Natural Bridge Fall 2008 Sjoholm Barbara Excerpts translated from Danish to English from Emilie Demant Hatt s With the Lapps in the High Mountains in The Antioch Review Spring 2008 Sjoholm Barbara Excerpts translated from Danish to English from With the Lapps in the High Mountains by Emilie Demant Hatt in Two Lines XIV Winter 2007 Sjoholm Barbara Fall 2010 How Muittalus Samid Birra was Created in Scandinavian Studies Publication of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 82 3 313 Sjoholm Barbara Fall 2012 Remapping the Tourist Road in Harvard Review 42 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Emilie Demant Hatt amp oldid 1205942123, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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