{{Short description|Danish sculptor (1923–2009)}} thumb|Ib Braase (1997) '''Ib Valentin Braase''' (7 August 1923 – 18 March 2009) was a Danish sculptor.<ref name=dbl>{{cite web |url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Billedhugger/Ib_Braase |title=Ib Braase |website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon |date=13 July 2012 |accessdate=5 November 2014 |language=Danish}}</ref> From 1968, he lived and worked in Marcoussis near Paris.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imago.imago.perso.sfr.fr/braase.htm |title=Ib Braase |work=Encyclopédie Audiovisuelle de l'Art Contemporain |accessdate=5 November 2014 |language=French |archive-date=1 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401044328/http://imago.imago.perso.sfr.fr/braase.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life, family and education== Born in Stege on the island of Møn, Braase was the son of the stonemason Christian Braase who introduced him to the art of stonework. As a 14-year-old, he crafted his first busts of family members. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1954 under Einar Utzon-Frank and Aksel Jørgensen, becoming the assistant of Astrid Noack with whom he created small stone figures.<ref name=weilbach>{{cite web |url=https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisWeilbach.do?kunstnerId=3781&wsektion=alle |title=Ib Braase |first=Ann Lumbye |last=Sørensen |work=Kunstleksikon Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstners Leksikon |accessdate=5 November 2014 |language=Danish}}</ref>
==Career== After initially working with stone, in the 1950s Braase turned to bronze, embarking on a new, experimental phase which soon led him to abandon the traditional approach of the Academy. One of his acclaimed works from this period is ''Barneværelset'' (1969) which juxtaposes iron profiles and belongs to his bronze creations in an open structure.<ref name=dsd/> In 1968, he moved to Marcoussis near Paris where he developed an independent approach with unconventional materials such as bronze, iron, wood, zinc and paint in works resembling unfinished furniture or makeshift scaffolding.<ref name=dbl/>
Braase exhibited widely from 1949, first as a member of the Den Polychrome association, then in Den Frie Udstilling and Grønningen. His work has also been presented in numerous solo exhibitions in Denmark and France.<ref name=weilbach/>
==Awards== In 1968, Braase was awarded the Eckersberg Medal and, in 1985, the Thorvaldsen Medal.<ref name=dsd>{{cite web |url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Kunstnere,_danske/Ib_Braase |title=Ib Braase |website=Den Store Danske |accessdate=5 November 2014 |language=Danish}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/SoegKunstnerVaerker.do?kunstnerId=3781 List of Braase's works in Danish museums]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Braase, Ib}} Category:1923 births Category:2009 deaths Category:People from Møn Category:Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal Category:Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal Category:Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Category:20th-century Danish sculptors Category:20th-century Danish male artists Category:Danish expatriate artists in France