"Red Hollyhocks in the Garden," Anna Ancher, 1916.

Ancher (1859-1935) is considered one of Denmark's finest artists. She was one of the leading figures of the Skagen school, a group of artists who gathered in the fishing village of Skagen, turning it into an artists' colony.

The Skagen artists loved plein air painting, rejected the academic formality of the Danish art establishment, and worked in a style that mixed Impressionism with Realism and sometimes dashes of Expressionism. Skagen artists, and especially Ancher, usually portrayed everyday life and natural scenes, and eschewed historical, religious, and allegorical painting.

Ancher is also something of a feminist icon, a woman who rejected social pressure to simply be a wife and mother to continue working and being a prominent and trailblazing artist. She became an example and inspiration to other Danish women seeking to form a place in the world.

Her home is now a museum, and she has been featured on Danish currency. And learn more about the Skagen artists...they're cool.

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Das Wetter für Hamburg
Sonntag, 10.9.2023
Michael Ancher „Anna Ancher kehrt vom Feld zurück“ 1902

Sommersonne satt, auch am Sonntag bei angenehmen 25°C

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Ung mor med sit barn, 1870
(Young mother with her child)

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