Else Fischer-Hansen (1905-1996), an underrecognized Danish artist, began her career as a naturalistic painter until transitioning to abstraction during the 1930s in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is known for her serene abstract landscapes from her home in Rågelie, a former fishing village, which lead to a desire to produce lyrical capturing’s of human emotion felt by the artist in that moment of painting. Nature, light, and air were crucial elements in Fischer-Hansen’s compositions and were painted in the simplest of form. The artist deemed her work to be “psychological images”, abstractions of empirically observed nature, as a response to a hospitalization term that lasted longer than a year. Fischer-Hansen was a member of both Helhesten and its successor movement, CoBrA. It is speculated that Fischer-Hansen suffered from manic and bi-polar disorder, leaving her to act irrational and violent. She and Egon Egon Mathiesen, a colorist marriage who was also part of Helhesten and CoBrA, had a tumultuous marriage. Yet despite her mental illness, she inaugurated a kind of poetic and painterly abstraction entirely distinct from geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, post-painterly abstraction, Op Art, Hard-Edge painting, and minimalism. In her later years, she worked as a colorist and illustrated children's books.