Friday, April 4, 2014
The Radiant Portraits of Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909)
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Marie Kroyer The Artist's Wife 1891
Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909), known as P.S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter. He is one of the best known of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish & Nordic artists who worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the late 1800s. On a trip to Paris in 1888, he ran into Marie Martha Mathilde Triepcke, whom he had known in Copenhagen. They married in 1889, at her parents' home in Germany. Marie Krøyer, also a painter, became associated with the Skagen community, & was often featured in Krøyer's paintings. The couple had 1 child, a daughter named Vibeke, born in January, 1895, but divorced in 1905.
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Marie Kroyer 1889
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Artist's Wife Marie
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Marie, Ravello 1890
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Nina
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Artist's Wife Marie
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Artist and Wife Marie
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Portrait of the Artist's Wife Marie
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) The Artist's Wife 1892
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) Artist Anna Ancher 1886
Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909) with his wife Marie