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Michael Peter Ancher

Michael Peter Ancher (1849 - 1927) was active/lived in Denmark.  Michael Ancher is known for Impressionist seascape, fishing scene genre and portrait painting.

Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics, and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists.

Michael Peter Ancher was born at Rutsker on the island of Bornholm. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art* (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen (1871-5), where his teachers Wilhelm Marstrand and Frederik Vermehren encouraged his interest in genre painting.  Here he also met Karl Madsen, who would later become Skagen Museum's first director and who invited him to travel to Skagen. A group of artists had congregated to form the Skagen Painters* in Skagen, a small fishing village in the north of Denmark, situated where the Baltic and North Sea converge.

After Ancher first visited Skagen in 1874, he settled there joining the growing society of artists. The colony of painters regularly met in the Brøndums Hotel   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4445 characters.]  Artist bio

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