AHLEFELDT-LAURVIG, Countess Ingegerd

1900 - 1987

Ingegerd Johanne Marie Henriette comtesse Ahlefeldt-Laurvig was born in Copenhagen [København] on 17 October 1900, her father was Preben Ferdinand Greve Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (27 October 1872-28 May 1946), Danish Ambassador and mother Mary Emilie Baroness von Gohrwas (11 October 1871-11 December 1954), a Russian Countess who married on 12 September 1899. Ingegerd married in Poland on 29 December 1921, Vincislav Greve Dambsk (1880-1922). Ingegerd was employed as an artist [kunstmaler] and married secondly at Udbyneder in Denmasrk on 25 September 1946 Gunnar Flemming Juncker (12 September 1904-25 March 2002). Between the two World Wars she was a flourishing professional painter living in London and held several exhibitions of her work in New York and in London including in 1930 at Abbey Gallery and in March 1939 an exhibition at Walker's Galleries in New Bond Street, London of seventy-two paintings entitled 'Keepers of the Commonwealth' which had been created at the Royal Hospital School at Chelsea during the previous three years. Some thirty-four works originally part of this exhibition were rediscovered hidden away in a shed on a piece of wasteland in Long Melford, Suffolk which were exhibited at Long Melford Royal British Legion in Cordell Road in 2015, seventeen of paintings were military portraits featuring past residents of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. Ingegerd first came to live at Long Melford in the early 1930s when her compatriot and friend Ulla Ditlef Nielsen (3 December 1908-3 December 1998) married on 25 November 1931, Sir William Stephen Hyde Parker, 11th Bt. (23 January 1892-29 July 1951) and Ingegerd lived in apartments at Melford Hall and afterwards at apartments at Kentwell Hall before purchasing Denmark House. Ingegerd Ahlefeldt-Laurvig died at Denmark House, Hall Street, Long Melford, Suffolk on 31 May 1987.

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Works by This Artist