Oluf Høst was a Danish Expressionist painter, the only member of the Bornholm school who was a native Bornholmer. Although he studied in Copenhagen, he returned to the Danish island of Bornholm in 1929 where he remained with his family for the rest of his life. Bognemark, a little farmhouse near Gudhjem, was one of Høst's favourite motifs. From 1935 on, he painted the farm some 200 times under varying conditions at different times of the year, often reflecting his particular mood at the time. His home in Gudhjem, built from two fishermen's cottages with a rocky garden in the rear, is named "Norresân" after the nearby harbour, Nørresand Havn, where he painted many of his works.
Vinterdagen dør (The dying of a Wintersday), 1943. Depicting the setting sun through the entryway of Bognemark, Høst's farm in Gudhjem, Bornholm - one of his most frequent motifs.
The Oluf Høst Museum in Gudhjem, Bornholm
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
Bornholm
Hammershus ruin
Windmill in Gudhjem
An 1877 windmill at Aarsdale