Lise Warburg

Inger Lise Warburg née Jensen (born 1932) is a Danish weaver and writer. She has specialized in tapestry using a high-warp loom, coordinating her work with that of various Danish painters including Mogens Andersen and Ole Schwalbe. As a writer, she has published a number of works on textile art, most recently Den strikkende madonna (The Knitting Madonna, 2018), a collection of essays on the cultural history of knitting.

Early life Born on 6 November 1932 in Copenhagen, Inger Lise Jensen is the daughter of the painter Hans Carl Jensen (1887–1961) Meretha Paulsen (1901-87). She was the elder of two sisters. In 1951, she married the director Niels Erik Warburg with whom she had two children, Emmerik Peter (1952) and Mette Cathrine (1955). The marriage was dissolved in 1964. Her first assignment was to complete a tapestry by Jais Nielsen (1885–1961) for the Aalborg Business School (Handelshøjskolen). In 1963, working with Kamma Svensson (1908–1988), she created Min søster og brud (1963) and later Adam og Eva og skabelsens dage (1982). Collaborating with Mogens Andersen, she produced colourful works during the 1960s for the National Gallery of Denmark, the National Bank and Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum. 1980: Srikkeskeen: et glemt redskab 1984: Den strikkende madonna i syd og nord 1989: I silkestrik fra top til tå: in knitted silk from top to toe 2018: Den strikkende madonna