HIRSCHSPRUNG Museum, Exhibition, KRØYER -an international perspective

Sunday 19 February Lisbeth and I visited the exhibition of the famous Danish painter KRØYER.

The Hirschsprung Collection presents a comprehensive exhibition about Danish painter P.S. Krøyer to mark the museum’s centenary.

Peder Severin Krøyer (23 July 1851 - 21 November 1909), known as P.S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter. He is one of the best known and beloved, and undeniably the most colorful of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish and Nordic artists who lived, gathered or worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the final decades of the 19th century. Krøyer was the unofficial leader of the group.


Peder Severin Krøyer (23 July 1851 - 21 November 1909, selfportrait

Marie Martha Mathilde Krøyer, his whife

P.S. Krøyer and Marie with a friend

The Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer.
Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway. He was raised by his mothers sister, Bertha Cecilie and her husband Nikolai Krøyer

Portrait of George Brandes
Georg Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.
P.S. Krøyer painted two types of paintings throughout his life: on demand to get money and the motives he chose himself.

The Hirschsprung family, 1881
Krøyer has always played a central role in relation to The Hirschsprung Collection. Ever since his youth Krøyer was a friend of the Hirschsprung family, who helped to secure Krøyer’s four-year study trip around Europe. It has therefore been an obvious choice to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the museum by profiling one of the collection’s most well represented and important artists.

The hat makers working place



Summer Day on Skagen's. Southern Beach 1884. Girls were not allowed to go bathing.

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Hip, Hip, Hurrah!, 1888 - Skagen artists partying.