Studio: international art (38.1906)

Northern Painters and their Homes

rooms and its wealth of flowers, both inside
and out. Kroyer has spent his happiest years
and painted some of his best pictures at Skagen,
where the genial artist is wont to gather round
him some of his many friends, often perpetuat-
ing with his inimitable grace and ease of touch,
episodes from their intercourse. Ancher and his
wife, the latter a native of Skagen, spend nearly
the whole year there, only paying short and
transitory visits to their charming town house in
Copenhagen, with its beautiful old garden and its
many pictures and studies ; they almost exclusively
paint Skagen scenes, and friends often assemble
round the long table in their Skaw garden. Pro-
fessor Locher, whose bulky form is shown inside
his comparatively modest studio, revels in the
mighty waves which break upon the Skagen
shore, or rise like fountains when the waters of the

MR. P. MONSTED’S HOUSE AT CHARLOTTENSUND

North Sea and the Kattegat meet and clash. Pro-
fessor Tuxen is the latest addition to the circle of
distinguished Skaw artists; he has built himself
a quaint country house there by materially en-
larging an old farmstead, the white walls of which
form a picturesque contrast to the dark timber
framework. White, too, is to the fore within
the house, which is remarkable by its quaint

and artistic simplicity, and where Professor and
Mme. Tuxen have given some spirited and original
fetes. Tuxen, though now the court painter par

ANCIENT STORE HOUSE AT MR. L. MOE’s RESIDENCE,
JUVLAND SATER

excellence, has not forgotten his old love for the sea
and the shore, which he, like his comrades, delights
to render in their changeful moods, and he will, no
doubt, help to keep up the good old Skagen artist
traditions, which some of the most fervent lovers
of the place are afraid will suffer through the
increased influx of visitors or outsiders, as they are
inclined to call them, a large new hotel having
been built there.

A home of a different stamp altogether is Mr. P.
Monsted’s large white villa at Charlottensund,
which, in the exterior at least, is of an essentially
modern type, though exceedingly pretty; its
position, too, forms a complete contrast to that of
the Skaw-dwellers’ houses, Monsted’s villa being
cosily sheltered by one of those beautiful beech
forests for which Denmark is famous.

An old house, genuinely old, is Mr. Frantz
Schwartz’s residence at Valby,. near Copenhagen.
The garden side is an old house from Odense,
which the lucky owner discovered and purchased,

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