Carlsberg Bottling Hall
This decoration was done on iron plates, mounted on the railing of a second-storey walkway running all the way around the bottling hall. The sixty-two plates have two different motifs. The first one is flowers. Each plate has five or more flowers on a monochrome background in different colours. Could this be the first appearance of the floral motif? The second is symbols, such as geometric shapes, plus and minus signs, star, anchor and the woman symbol. These plates have a white background with a coloured border top and bottom.
The plates are mounted so that flowers and symbols alternate. Across all of them a flock of birds is flying through from right to left. This decoration was done immediately after Herlev Hospital. It is interesting to see the symbols Gernes used in his 1960’s paintings with flowers that are appearing as a new motif.
Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 372. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.
