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Olivia Holm-Møller (1875-1970), first attended Emilie Mundt's and Marie Luplau's drawing school before being admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1901, where she studied under professors August Saabye, Viggo Johansen and Sigurd Wandel. However, in 1910 she left the academy without graduating. Throughout her life, Olivia Holm-Møller traveled extensively; before World War II in Europe, but after the war she expanded her travel activities to the entire world. The later part of her production in particular is characterized by this outlook. Olivia Holm-Møller worked in isolation; she was not part of any artist association or had any extended network among colleagues. However, she traveled together with the artist Jens Nielsen (1891–1978). After both of their deaths, a joint museum was established for the two, the Jens Nielsen & Olivia Holm-Møller Museum in Holstebro, later a department of Holstebro Kunstmuseum, before the department was closed down in 2013; Holm-Møller's works from there are now part of the Holstebro Art Museum's collections.

Olivia Holm-Møller had her debut at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition (1908) and in addition to participating in many group exhibitions during her lifetime, she managed to have 20 solo exhibitions alone in the Free Exhibition Building (1916–68). Other solo exhibitions during her lifetime include: Aarhus Kunstforening (1951), Tokanten, Copenhagen (1952), Vejle Museum (1960). After her death, she has had exhibitions at Sophienholm (1978) and Silkeborg Kunstmuseum (1985). In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in her (and other female modernists') art in the Danish museum world, e.g. Three Strong Ones – Ebba Carstensen, Anna Klindt Sørensen and Olivia Holm-Møller (Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, 2002); Farveskriget (Gl. Holtegaard, 2006); Modern Women. Female Painters in the Nordic Countries (Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Gothenburg Art Museum, Trondheim Art Museum, 2006); Olivia's World (Holstebro Art Museum, 2015).

She is represented at The Danish National Museum of Art; Holstebro Art Museum; Vejle Museums; Esbjerg Art Museum; Museum Jorn; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; Ribe Art Museum; Fuglsang Art Museum; Museum Sønderjylland; BRANDTS – Museum of Art and Visual Culture; KUNSTEN – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg; Arbejdermuseet; Sorø Art Museum; Vejen Art Museum.