"Two women in the garden (in the arbor)" by Peder Severin Kroyer, limit. reproduction

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909) knows every child in Denmark and Norway. The Norwegian-Danish painter from Skagen is the icon of Nordic Impressionism. At the age of 14, Krøyer came to the Royal Danish art academy. As a young artist, he undertook extensive trips to Spain, Italy and especially France from 1877 to 1881, where he studied the impressionists in Paris. In the summer of 1882, Krøyer came to Skagen for the first time, where he spent every summer from now on and became the main representative of the artist colony there. His pictures show a carefree life of the artists, their festivals, walks on the beach and atmospheric evenings in the moonlight.