Kistat Lund

Kîstat Lund (11 October 1944 – 8 January 2017) was a Greenlandic graphic artist, illustrator, painter and schoolteacher. Educated at GU Nuuk High School and Viborg Katedralskole, she began drawing and painting while she was in high school and she worked with the techniques of painting in airbrush, acrylic, graphics, oil, paper cuts, pastel paintings, reliefs, tapestry weave templates and watercolour. Lund created art that was commissioned by conference rooms, institutions and schools. She was also a teacher at Narsap Atuarfia in Narsaq from 1975 after training as a teacher. Lund received scholarships and awards for her work and she was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1997.

Early life Lund was born in the village of Ammassivik, Nanortalik, South Greenland on 11 October 1944. Lund was brought up in Ammassivik, residing with her grandparents when she was between the ages of four and twelve before moving into her mother's home in Qaqortoq to find better educational opportunities. Lund graduated from GU Nuuk High School in 1963 and from Viborg Katedralskole three years later. Lund frequently omitted people from her works and her art was commissioned several times by conference rooms, institutions and schools. Stine Lundberg Hansen wrote that Lund was sensitive to colour, detail, watercolour on the harsh and imposing nature, observed in how she painted in soft, warm colours and simplified the subject's construction. With reliefs, her inspiration was the appropriate cultural features and myths to the institutions she worked with. Lund's inspiration for motifs originated from South Greenland's nature and Greenlandic legends.