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Skagens Museum
At the end of the 19th century, Skagen became home to an artist colony consisting of Scandinavian painters and other artists. In , Skagens Museum was founded so that their art could be preserved for posterity in the surroundings where it was created. The museum was completed in and has since housed the world's largest collection of Skagen painters' works.
At the museum you can see paintings of i.a. P.S. Krøyer, Anna Ancher, Laurits Tuxen, Michael Ancher, Christian Krohg, Holger Drachmann, Carl Locher and Viggo Johansen. In addition, the museum shows changing special exhibitions.
Brøndums Spisesal and Museumshaven (the garden)
Brøndums Spisesal was moved to Skagens Museum in - it is decorated with paintings by the various Skagen painters. The space is adorned with a portrait frieze that runs all the way around the hall, showing the artist colony and their circle, as well as a number of other paintings attached to the walls. It was P.S. Krøyer, who began the decoration in after a visit to France, where he had seen a similar room. To protect the paintings, the hall was moved to the museum, where it can still be experienced.
Havehuset, which was Anna and Michae
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Introduction to the Skagen painters
Introduction in english
In the last decades of the 19th century, Skagen became home to an art colony of primarily Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian painters including artists like Peder Severin Krøyer, Anna Ancher, Oscar Björck, Christian Krohg and Laurits Tuxen. The painters of this colony are known as the Skagen painters. They were drawn to the area for its natural scenery. Inspired bygd French Realism, the artists found their motifs on Skagen's beaches, on the moors and in the cabins of the local fishermen, as well as in their own familiar environment. In , Skagens Museum was established to preserve the artistic legacy of the painters in the place, which inspired the artworks.
This outdoor introduction in English introduces you to the members of the art colony known as the Skagen painters as well as an overview of themes in the museum's collection. The introduction takes place in the area around Skagens Museum and lasts approximately 25 minutes.
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Skagen Painters: The Art of Capturing Light
The Skagen Colony of Painters
Skagen, in northernmost Jutland, was a popular fishing village and summer destination for middle-class city people who looked for a getaway place to relax. It was during the last quarter of the 19th century that the group of Scandinavian artists who would come to be known as the Skagen painters made the seaside town the perfect site to periodically gather and paint its people and landscapes. They found that remote town particularly charming from the very first moment they set foot on it – some of them even settled in Skagen permanently, mesmerized by the variety of subjects they could depict.
The origins of this artists&#; colony trace back to the early s when some young artists attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, dissatisfied with the traditional education given by both art institutions, looked for new, less conventional approaches, closer to the groundbreaking art movements happening in Europe.
Karl Madsen (, Copenhagen) was the first member of the group who visited Skagen, along with fellow artist Michael Ancher (, Bornholm, Skagen) in