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Michael Ancher

A Danish painter of the fishermen and families of Skagen, the artists' colony at the northern tip of Denmark. He married the painter Anna Brøndum, who became Anna Ancher.

A life in paintings

  1. 1849
    Born
  2. 1880
    Was the partner of Anna AncherSkagen

    Michael and Anna Ancher married in 1880 and lived and worked in Skagen, both central to the Skagen Painters' colony. Their daughter Helga, born in 1883, became a painter too.

    Source: Wikipedia
  3. 1881
  4. 1903
  5. 1927
    Died

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Artists’ colony · Skagen, Denmark · 1875

Skagen Painters

Artists' colony at the northern tip of Jutland, late 1870s to the turn of the century, meeting at Brøndums Hotel (Anna Ancher's family).

Source: Wikipedia

Where to see them

Skagens Museum

Skagen

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Statens Museum for Kunst

Copenhagen

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