In Denmark, Skagen is the equivalent of our Barbizon or our Pont-Aven: a place that has become famous for the colony of artists who nested there.
The painter Peder Severin Kroyer (1851-1909), to whom the Musée Marmottan Monet pays homage (first monographic exhibition in France), was the key figure.
More naturalist than impressionist, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and, in Paris, at Léon Bonnat's studio, but having also developed the practice of the outdoors both in Brittany and in the Ile-de-France countryside, he has excelled at rendering the charm of this wild point of Jutland.
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Often, in his landscapes, especially the large formats intended for painting salons or Universal Exhibitions, an oblique sun, barely hot although it is summery, or even a full moon, caress the forms.
These are rare to protrude.
Lapping of a calm sea with crests in white streaks strongly brushed up to the horizon line.
Children of the village taking a swim,
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