“Paris’ dom” (The Judgement of Paris). Harald Giersing (Danish; 1881–1927). Oil on composition board, 1909. Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen.
#HaraldGiersing
#Giersing
#Danishart
#Danishartists
#Danishpainters
@smkmuseum
Two women (described by the museum as laundresses) stand in a shallow doorway and lean into conversation. An older woman at left has light skin, a wrinkled face, and a white headscarf tied under her chin as her arms fold across her chest and her expression reads as doubtful, guarded, and thoroughly unconvinced. Another older woman at right, also light-skinned and shown mostly from the back and profile, bends forward insistently with one hand raised as if emphasizing a point. Both wear long blue skirts and aprons, with red accents in the speaker’s shawl/sash. A broom, bucket, and cloth at the threshold reinforce the domestic scene. Danish artist Carl Bloch uses a rounded panel top, dark interior shadow, and bright sunlit wall to frame their gestures so the drama is carried by posture, hands, and faces rather than action. What makes the painting memorable is how much social observation Bloch compresses into a small format. The Nivaagaard Collection text notes his interest in Copenhagen’s working-class subjects and in humorous, everyday scenes. That emphasis shows here because this is not an idealized allegory of womanhood but a charged moment of ordinary speech, skepticism, insistence, and relationship. The museum also points to Bloch’s caricature-like expressiveness and to Dutch Golden Age genre painting as a touchstone. Both feel visible in the animated body language and the almost theatrical timing of the exchange. Painted in 1874, the work also sits within Bloch’s mature career after his Italian years, when he was already an established Danish artist capable of moving between grand commissions and intimate genre scenes. Even while he was known for ambitious historical and religious paintings, Bloch continued to give close attention to working women as subjects worthy of wit, presence, and psychological nuance.
“To koner, der taler sammen” (Two Women Talking) by Carl Bloch (Danish) - Oil on panel / 1874 - The Nivaagaard Collection (Nivå, Denmark) #WomenInArt #CarlBloch #Bloch #NivaagaardCollection #DanishArtist #DanishArt #art #arte #artText #BlueskyArt #ArtOfTheDay #1870s #WomenAtWork #PortraitOfWomen
Two women stand together on a path overlooking a moonlit bay, rendered in a soft palette of reds, blues, and silvery green-gray. Both figures are shown in elegant profile poses, but one woman turns her face toward us with a steady, eye-catching gaze. Her arm wraps around the other woman’s shoulders in a protective, intimate gesture. The other woman looks outward toward the landscape, dreamy and absorbed, holding an apple in one hand. Their dresses, makeup, jewelry, and matching rings are carefully detailed, and the scene feels stylized. It’s poised, theatrical, and tender at once. Behind them, mountains, water, and buildings recede into a luminous atmosphere that gives the image an almost unreal calm. This painting is regarded as one of Danish artist Gerda Wegener’s most moving images of closeness between Gerda and Lili Elbe who married in 1904 when Lili was still publicly known as Einar Wegener. Its emotional power comes from how it balances intimacy with formality. The paired profiles echo Renaissance portrait conventions, while the saturated color, fashion-conscious elegance, and polished surface place the work firmly in Wegener’s modern, Art Deco world. The apple can suggest desire, beauty, choice, or a deliberately staged symbol within a private bond. The work carries a timeless, “elevated” quality that’s less a travel snapshot than an image of shared love, aesthetic devotion, and memory. The moonlit Capri setting matters: Italy appears here as both real place and emotional landscape. Painted in 1922, the work belongs to the period when Gerda and Lili were living within cosmopolitan Parisian artistic circles and shaping the imagery that would make Wegener one of the most distinctive women artists of her era. Wegener was celebrated in Paris for her refined line, glamour, and portraits of women, even as her work could provoke controversy in Denmark. Her paintings of Lili and other women expanded the visual language of femininity, performance, and identity.
“Sur la route d’Anacapri” (On the Way to Anacapri) by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1922 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #GerdaWegener #Wegener #artText #BlueskyArt #DanishArt #arte #ArtDeco #QueerArt #ARKEN #ArkenMuseum
Another one by the Danish artist Don Kenn. I'm pretty sure that's a picture of me as a kid reading.
Also, I'd like to say another thank you to everyone's spirited contributions to what was another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday yesterday. Here's to the next one!
#DanishArt #ScandinavianArt
A small boy is reading in armchair. Behind him hideous worm-shaped yokai are emerging from a cupboard.
Another one by the Danish artist Don Kenn. I'm pretty sure that's a picture of me as a kid reading.
And thank you to everyone's spirited contributions to what was another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday yesterday. Here's to the next one!
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #DanishArt #ScandinavianArt
White-sheeted ghosts peer through a tall woman at a child sitting at a table. Another small child can be seen peeping in through the window, too.
To start my #PhantomsFriday, something by contemporary artist John Kenn Mortensen, also known as Don Kenn.
#ghost #ghosts #weirdart #DanishArt #artsky
A Set Of Four Neoclassical Paintings By Tiarko Cramer [1780-1812], The Allegorical Designs Conceived By Nicolai Abildgaard.
Carlton Hobbs LLC, Inv. No. 8033
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#neoclassical #fineart #danishart #copenhagen #19thcentury #historypainting #allegory
A view across a stormy sea to a lighthouse tower on a rocky coast. Seabirds wheel about under a sky in which dark clouds are gathering, suggesting an approaching storm. Figures are standing on the beach to the left of the tower, and a second, smaller tower is in the distance.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Carl Neumann (Danish, 1833-1891), A coastal scene from #Skagen, 1863, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun-Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
#art #artsky #lighthouse #seascape #MarineArt #MaritimeArt #DanishArt #Skagensmalerne #fyr #fyrtårn #OilPainting
mural on a building in denmark. 'artificial nature (road to nowhere IV)' by juandres vera. a 3D illusion mural showing a cave opening with a forest and waterfall beyond. the piece creates the impression that the building wall has cracked open to reveal a hidden natural world inside.
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you can almost hear the roar of the waterfall...
💙✨️🎨🕊
#art #danishart #wallmural #waterfall
A white lighthouse tower stands at the end of a jetty in a calm harbor under a cloudy sky.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Elias Petersen (Danish, 1859-1950), Jetty with #lighthouse, 1944, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun-Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
#art #artsky #OilPainting #kunst #DanishArt #DanskKunst #BlueSkyMonday #seascape #MaritimeArt #MarineArt
The First and long overdue exhibition of the work of Danish artist Anna Ancher in the UK ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #annaAncher #Dulwichpicturegallery #art #femaleartists #danishart #denmark #skagen @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
A light-skinned woman in a vivid orange dress leans back, laughing, as she lifts a long-limbed black cat mid-air. The animal’s green eyes flash and its mouth opens in a rasping hiss as splayed paws and a curved tail capture a split second between play and protest. The woman’s short dark hair and mask-like, sculpted features are edged with pale highlights while elongated fingers reach for the cat’s torso and its flailing paws. Broad, swirling blue-green strokes churn behind them, pushing figure and cat forward like a gust of air. Made late in Danish artist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen’s career, the picture condenses his irreverent, pleasure-driven figuration: cartooned anatomy, high-key color, and brushwork that feels as jumpy as the cat itself. The domestic scene is anything but tame as the animal’s bristling body doubles as a graphic line that the painter rides across the surface so that play becomes a metaphor for unruly vitality and modern life. Long sidelined as eccentric, Willumsen’s late works were reappraised in the exhibition Café Dolly, which paired him with Francis Picabia and Julian Schnabel to argue for an “impure” modernism that embraces contamination, collage-like references, and sheer painterly excess. Here, delight and danger mingle in a single, lunging stroke, turning a private game into a manifesto for pictorial freedom.
“Dame leger med kat (Woman Playing with Cat)” by J. F. Willumsen (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1945 - J. F. Willumsens Museum (Frederikssund, Denmark) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #JFWillumsen #Willumsen #JensFerdinandWillumsen #WillumsensMuseum #DanishArt #cat #NordicArt #DanishModernism #CatArt
In the foreground is a tall-masted sailing vessel on a sea with small swells. In the background are two more ships: a sailing ship to the left, and a steamer to the right, with smoke rising from its smokestack. A small lighthouse tower is also in the background to the right. The sky is mostly filled with cumulus clouds, with occasional patches of blue sky.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Christian Benjamin Olsen (Danish, 1873-1935), Ships off a #lighthouse, n.d., oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun Rasmussen Auctions, bruun-rasmussen.dk
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#art #artsky #OilPainting #MarineArt #MaritimeArt #DanishArt #fyr #kunst
A group of fishermen on a beach on a rainy day are readying their sailboats to put out to see. A tall lighthouse tower stands in the background.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Carl Neumann (Danish, 1833-1891), Fishermen at their boats on the beach of #Skagen, n.d., oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun-Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
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#art #atsky #lighthouse #seascape #DanishArt #DanishGoldenAge #kunst #DanskKunst
A lighthouse stands on a rocky headland with waves breaking on the beach below, apparently at low tide.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Laurits Bernard Holst (Danish, 1848-1934), Coastal #landscape with #lighthouse, 1901, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bonhams, bonhams.com
#art #artsky #OilPainting #seascape #MaritimeArt #kunst #fyr #DanishArt #EuropeanArt
Danish artist Gerda Wegener (born Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb) painted her spouse and muse, Lili Elbe, at a pivotal moment in both their lives: Paris in 1920, where the couple had resettled after Copenhagen critics dismissed Wegener’s glamorous portraits as too risqué. In Paris, however, her Art Nouveau-to-Art Deco line, fashion-forward sensibility, and witty eroticism found an eager audience in magazines and salons. This portrait distills the couple’s shared project: picturing Lili not as a “costume,” but as a woman whose beauty, taste, and social ease are givens. Lili, with light peach skin and softly curled blonde hair swept into a high chignon, turns three-quarters right and looks down with almost closed, kohl-lined eyes; rouge warms her cheeks and her lips rose-lacquered. A short pearl necklace rims a scalloped neckline on a fitted, pale-pink dress fastened by a row of tiny back buttons while elbow-length gloves hug her forearms. In her left hand, she holds the handle of a luxuriant large emerald-green feather fan which arcs behind her shoulder like a wing. The background is a dense tapestry of stylized leaves, birds, and flowers in coral, salmon, moss, and umber. The paint is buttery and animated, textures shifting from gleaming satin to velvety feathers; the overall mood is poised, self-possessed, and decidedly elegant. Wegener’s Paris pictures of chorus girls, models, and friends offered a distinctly female gaze attentive to women’s agency, pleasure, and the craft of self-fashioning. Lili (born Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener), who would later undergo gender-affirming surgeries in 1930 and tragically die in 1931, was central to that vision as painting became a means for the couple to make public a private truth. In “Lili with a Feather Fan,” paint, costume, and pose work together as a quiet manifesto: beauty as knowledge, elegance as resolve, and an act of love and recognition as artist and sitter look at one another.
“Lili with a Feather Fan” by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1920 - ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #GerdaWegener #Wegener #WomanArtist #WomensArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #DanishArt #ArtDeco #ArtNouveau #ARKENMuseumofContemporaryArt #ARKEN #WomensArt
A sandy coastline partially overgrown with vegetation; a lighthouse tower stands in the distance.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Frederik Larsen-Særsløv (Danish, 1870-1942), Scenery from Nakkehoved #Lighthouse at Gilleleje, 1930, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun-Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
#art #artsky #OilPainting #DanishArt #MaritimeArt #landscape #kunst #DanskKunst
Three men stand next to a cylindrical white brick tower with a flattened conical roof to the left of the painting. To the right, further back, are a large red-roofed brick or stone building and a smaller white building, perhaps a house. Tall-masted sailing ships are docked in a harbor in the background. The sky is a clear, cloudless blue.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Carl Dahl (Danish, 1812-1865), View of the port of Korsør, 1863, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun-Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
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#art #artsky #lighthouse #fyr #fyrtårn #kunst #DanskKunst #DanishArt #EuropeanArt #MaritimeArt #harborscape
A lighthouse tower stands in a heavy sea as storm clouds gather overhead.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Anton Melbye (Danish, 1818-1875), Eddystone #Lighthouse, 1846, oil on canvas.
Courtesy Statens Museum for Kunst, smk.dk
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#art #artsky #kunst #fyr #oilpainting #seascape #MaritimeArt #DanishArt #EuropeanArt #Romanticism
A grey lighthouse tower stands to thr left on the shore of a choppy sea. A shop is sailing on thr sea to the right. Most of the image is taken up by a sky of gathering clouds, the light suggesting dusk or dawn.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Holger Drachmann (Danish, 1846-1908), Coastal view from #Skagen with the grey #lighthouse, 1907, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
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#art #artsky #oilpainting #SkagenPainters #Skagensmalerne #MaritimeArt #DanishArt #seascape
A white masonry tower stands atop a cliff by a choppy sea under a partly cloudy sky. A boat is drawn up on the shore to the left, and a boat is sailing on the sea to the left. Two figures are on the boat, and a further two stand on the shore, looking out to see. A steamer is on the horizon in the distance, smoke rising from its smokestacks.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Johan Jens Neumann (Danish, 1860-1940), view of Vesborg #Lighthouse on #Samsø, n.d., oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
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#art #artsky #seascape, #oilpainting #DanishArt #EuropeanArt #MaritimeArt #fyr #fyrtårn
Anna Ancher, née Brøndum, (18 August 1859 – 15 April 1935) was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters.
Harvesters, 1905
Oil on canvas 56.2x43.4 cm
Skagens Museum
#BornOnThisDay #DanishArt #FemaleArtist #SkagensPainters
A white lighthouse tower stands among dunes and green grass under a blue sky with white clouds. A path lined by a wooden post and rail fence leads to the lighthouse. There are houses in the distance.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Ludvig Holm (Danish, 1884-1954), The white #lighthouse, #Skagen, 1913, oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruun Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
#art #artsky #BlueSkyMonday #SkagenPainters #SkagensMalerne #oilpainting #landscape #EuropeanArt #DanishArt
A white stone tower stands in a field of green grass under a blue sky.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Michael Peter Ancher (Danish, 1849-1927), Spring day at #Skagen #Lighthouse, n.d., oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Bruin Rasmussen, bruun-rasmussen.dk
#art #artsky #oilpainting #SkagenPainters #landscape #DanishArt #EuropeanArt #Skagensmalerne #fyr
A tall cylindrical lighthouse stands on the shore by a still body of water. A small house and a church with a towering steeple stand to its right, and there are what appear to be three two-wheeled carriages parked on the beach in front of the lighthouse.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Martinus Rørbye (Danish, 1803-1848), The #Lighthouse of Travemünde Seen from the South, 1834, graphite, grey wash.
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org
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#art #artsky #drawing #MaritimeArt #DanishArt #EuropeanArt
A new painting I created during my stay at @elisabethveerbeek_artist’s studio in Rotterdam.
Amazing how fresh energy flows when you work in a new environment and atmosphere. I love it. 🤓
Have a lovely Day.
Love Ea
#abstract #abstractartist #emergingartist #danishartist #danishart #artcillectors
#OTD in 1840
‘‘A Sailor Taking Leave of His Girl’
(‘En matros, som tager afsked med sin pige’)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853)
Oil on canvas. 25 June 1840.
Ribe Kunstmuseum
#DanishArt #ChristofferWilhelmEckersberg
Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (11 June 1867 – 25 May 1940) commonly known as Marie Krøyer, was a Danish painter. Her first husband was the better known artist Peder Severin Krøyer.
Interior with woman sewing, oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in., Skagens Museum
#BornOnThisDay #DanishArt #FemaleArtist
A composition of what appear to be two dogs, one brown and one black and white, in a wash of various colors. #jakobsteen #danishartist #danskkunstner #uvprinting #dogsinart #animalsinart #contemporaryart #samtidskunst #samtidskonst #animalart #cão #cachorro #dog #perro #amorperruno #chien #toutou #hund #hond #hundeliebe #koira #köpek #пес #犬 #狗 #개 #blackandwhitedog #canine #כלב
Credit: Jakob Steen (Præsto, Denmark, 1986-). This is Madumsø XXL, uv print on paper, 130 x 175 cm. I appreciate the apparent canine representation.
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#artsky #art #dog #canine #scandinavianart #contemporaryart #uvprint #animalart #perro #jakobsteen #danishart
At the National Gallery, London
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish artist
1864 - 1916
Interior, 1899
#Danishart
