In the Priest's Garden. Christiansø.

In the Priest's Garden. Christiansø. was painted during the period Edvard Weie spent part of every year on the island of Christiansø, a former naval fortress in the Baltic Sea northeast of Bornholm; he returned there regularly from 1911 to 1920, producing many of the works for which he is best known today. Christiansø's rocky granite landscape, fortification walls, and exceptionally clear Baltic light appealed to Weie and his contemporaries as subjects well suited to the colorist approach he was developing under the influence of Cézanne. It was on Christiansø that Weie met the Swedish painter Karl Isakson (1878–1922), whose bold use of color would become an important influence on Weie's mature style. Weie was born in Copenhagen in 1879 and studied under Kristian Zahrtmann at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, the independent art school that introduced a generation of Danish painters to modern European art. Rejected twice by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Weie remained largely independent throughout his career, contributing critical essays to newspapers while becoming increasingly engaged with artistic theory and criticism. He is now regarded as one of the most important colorists in Danish modernism. The painting is in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.