Anna Thommesen was married to the Danish sculptor Erik Thommesen and although the two of them must have felt a special complicity through their artistic practice, they also represented quite different approaches within modernist art; Erik an organic modernism with his softly rounded wooden sculptures and Anna a more constructivist approach with her clearly defined, abstract-geometric compositions. Considering the precision and clarity of her motifs, it might seem surprising that she did not work out detailed templates and had a much more intuition based process. Each new composition began with a small gouache and the colors—as opposed to lines and contours— were always the point of departure in her work.
Anna Thommesen received the honorable Eckersbergs Medalje in 1972 and her work is represented in the collections of Holstebro Kunstmuseum
