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Michael Ancher
Michael Ancher

Michael Ancher

Danish, 1849 – 1927
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Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the lakes, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

Michael Peter Ancher was born at Rutsker on the island of Bornholm. The son of a local merchant, he attended school in Rønne but was unable to complete his secondary education as his father ran into financial difficulties, forcing him to fend for himself. In 1865, he found work as an apprentice clerk at Kalø Manor near Rønde in eastern Jutland. The following year, he met the painters Theodor Philipsen and Vilhelm Groth who had arrived in the area to paint. Impressed with his own early work, they encouraged him to take up painting as a profession. In 1871, he spent a short period at C.V Nielsen's art school as a preliminary to joining the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen later in the year. Although he spent some time at the academy, he left in 1875 without graduating.

One of his student companions was Karl Madsen who invited him to travel to Skagen, a small fishing village in the far north of Jutland where the Baltic and North Sea converge. From the mid-1870s, he and Madsen became key members of a group of artists who congregated there each summer, known as the Skagen Painters.

After Ancher first visited Skagen in 1874, he settled there joining the growing society of artists. The colony of painters regularly met in the Brøndums Hotel in Skagen in order to exchange ideas. In 1880 Ancher married fellow painter and Skagen native Anna Brøndum, whose father owned the Brøndums Hotel. In the first years of their marriage, the couple had a home and studio in the "Garden House", which is now in the garden of the Skagens Museum. After the birth of their daughter Helga in 1883, the family moved to Markvej in Skagen.

He achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1879 with the painting Vil han klare pynten (Will He Round the Point?). Michael Ancher's works depict Skagen's heroic fishermen and their dramatic experiences at sea, combining realism and with classical composition. Key works include The Lifeboat is Carried Through The Dunes (1883), The Crew Are Saved (1894) and The Drowned Man (1896).

Michael Ancher was influenced by his traditional training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the 1870s which imposed strict rules for composition. His marriage to Anna Ancher did, however, introduce him to the naturalistic concept of undecorated reproduction of reality and its colours. By combining the pictorial composition of his youth with the teachings of naturalism, Michael Ancher created what has been called modern monumental figurative art, such as A Baptism.

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Skagen girl, Maren Sofie, knitting.

Skagen girl, Maren Sofie, knitting. (1882)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes (1915)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Fishermen launching a rowing boat

Fishermen launching a rowing boat (1881)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Ellen Gulbranson

Ellen Gulbranson (1908)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Den druknede

Den druknede (1896)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Christmas Day 1900

Christmas Day 1900 (1902)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Art critics. Study

Art critics. Study (1906)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Anna Ancher returning from the field

Anna Ancher returning from the field (1902)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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A stroll on the beach

A stroll on the beach (1896)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Gerda Ahlborn

Gerda Ahlborn (1890)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Portrait of my wife

Portrait of my wife (1884)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Figures in a landscape. Blind Kristian and Tine among the dunes

Figures in a landscape. Blind Kristian and Tine among the dunes (1880)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Blind Kristian minding a child

Blind Kristian minding a child (1885)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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The Sanctuary Cliffs at Rø

The Sanctuary Cliffs at Rø (1890)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
Landscape
Portrait of Martin Andersen Nexø

Portrait of Martin Andersen Nexø (1911)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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By Grandmothers sickbed

By Grandmothers sickbed (1879)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Solnedgang over Brovandene syd for Skagen

Solnedgang over Brovandene syd for Skagen

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
Landscape
Ung Pige

Ung Pige (1904)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Niels Pedersen Mols

Niels Pedersen Mols (1892)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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The beach at Skagen

The beach at Skagen (1900-1927)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
Landscape
Young girl on Skagen Soenderstrand (Ung pige på Skagen Sønderstrand)

Young girl on Skagen Soenderstrand (Ung pige på Skagen Sønderstrand) (1914)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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A Girl with Sunflowers

A Girl with Sunflowers (1889)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Two Fishermen. Study

Two Fishermen. Study

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Children and young girls picking flowers in a field north of Skagen

Children and young girls picking flowers in a field north of Skagen (1887)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
Landscape
Thorvald Bindesbøll

Thorvald Bindesbøll (1892)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
Figurative
Prince Christian of Denmark

Prince Christian of Denmark (1895)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Nils Hansteen

Nils Hansteen (1888)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Ung mor med barn

Ung mor med barn (1913)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Michael Therkildsen

Michael Therkildsen (1890)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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Laurits Andersen Ring

Laurits Andersen Ring (1892)

Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849 – 1927)
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