Skagen Painters
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The Skagen Painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village of Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century. Skagen was a summer
Michael Ancher: A Stroll on the Beach (1896)
Dining room in Brøndums Hotel (c. 1891) showing some of the group and the panel of their portraits
Carl Locher: Mail Coach on Skagen Beach (c. 1890)
P.S. Krøyer: Artists at Lunch (1883)
Anna Ancher
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Anna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered one of Denmark's greatest visual artists.
Skagen Painters
…Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, espousing the latest trends that they had learned in Paris. Among the group were Anna and Michael Ancher, Peder Severin Krøyer, Holger Drachmann, Karl Madsen, Laurits Tuxen, Marie Krøyer, Carl Locher, Viggo Johansen and Thorvald Niss…
Photo by Frederik Riise
Anna Ancher, self-portrait, c. 1877–78
Sunlight in the Blue Room (Solskin i den blå stue), Ancher's most famous painting
Anna Ancher painting at her easel, painted by Karl Madsen