In Skagen’s Light From PS Krøyer to Joakim Eskildsen

05. March 2017 to 18. June 2017

Beginning in the 1870s an artists’ colony that attracted international attention, even beyond Denmark’s borders, developed in the little fishing village of Skagen, where two seas meet at the north-eastern tip of the country. The special quality of the light, the light-coloured and extensive sandy beach and the high dunes along a coast seen as remarkably pristine as well as the hard life of the people there fascinated Danish artists and also painters from Norway, Sweden and Germany. All of them had previously explored the most modern artistic developments in Paris – open-air painting and Impressionism – and now, painting outdoors, they made their way to their own distinctive forms of expression and individual motifs related to the Skagen landscape and everyday life there.

 

The main protagonists include PS Krøyer and Marie Krøyer, Michael Ancher and Anna Ancher, Viggo Johannsen, Laurits Tuxen, Oscar Björck, Frits Thaulow, Carl Locher and Christian Krogh. With its collection the Museum Kunst der Westküste possesses what are presumably the largest holdings in any museum outside Denmark. For the first time in the museum’s history this exhibition shows all of these works together – presented in keeping with the salon hanging practised by the Skagen painters themselves.

 

Three international contemporary artists, namely, Joakim Eskildsen (DEN), Ulrik Møller (DEN) and Birgit Fischötter (GER), have been selected to expand the show: they demonstrate that an artistic occupation with the place and theme of “Skagen” is still relevant in the 21st century. The Skagen artists’ works and world of motifs are reinterpreted in various ways in the media of photography and painting.

Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen XIV
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen XIV
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen XIV
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen XIV
Birgit Fischötter - ohne Titel
Birgit Fischötter - ohne Titel
Birgit Fischötter - ohne Titel
Birgit Fischötter - ohne Titel
Ulrik Møller - In Grenen
Ulrik Møller - In Grenen
Ulrik Møller - In Grenen
Ulrik Møller - In Grenen
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen I
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen I
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen I
Joakim Eskildsen - Skagen I