DOI Heft:
No. 161 (August, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: Some nothern painters and their homes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0245
Northern Painters and their Homes
having the whole structure removed
to Copenhagen. It was rather a
serious undertaking and some scep-
tical people shook their heads, but
the venture proved a decided success,
and Mr. Schwartz is now possessed
of a singularly charming and pic-
turesque home, the interior of which,
with its irregularity—the house is
built on a steep slope, the one side
being a story lower than the other
—and its many excellent pictures
and pieces of antique furniture, is
in perfect harmony with its exterior
beauty.
Louis Moe, the admirable etcher,
of whose work several examples have
appeared in The Studio, forms
a natural link between Denmark
and Norway, living, as he does, in Copenhagen
during the winter and spending his summers at his
Norwegian mountain home, Juvland Sater, in
Thelemarken. Although I only know it and the
country around it from Mme. Moe’s splendid
photographs, I am greatly impressed with its
quaint, original beauty—just the home one might
expect an artist like Louis Moe to have built for
himself, made beautiful by wild roses and water-
lilies and field flowers, and much of the wood-
work done in fantastic forms, the outcome of his
never flagging imagination. On many an evening
Moe gathers his friends and neighbours around
his old-fashioned fireplace, when weird and stirring
tales are told of the bear and the wolf of the
MR. L. moe’s WORKSHOP AT JUVLAND SATER
neighbouring mountains, or of ancient Trold and
such-like, or of the peaceful beaver, which rare
animal also must be counted amongst Moe’s many
interesting neighbours.
Most Norwegian artists, however, seem to have
chosen Christiania, or its immediate vicinity, for
their place of residence, and several of them have
there very charming houses, amongst them the
famous painter Erik Werenskjold, Frithiof Nan-
sen’s next-door neighbour, and whose house con-
tains much of interest, although the truly delightful
view of the Christiania Fjord is, perhaps, its
greatest attraction. In the same direction, but
nearer the town, lies Thorolf Holmboe’s house,
light and chaste within and without, white pre-
dominating ; some of the rooms having
benefited by Holmboe’s pronounced de-
corative talent—a sweetly pretty home
which charming Mme. Holmboes love of
flowers makes prettier still. On the other
side of Christiania, up Holmenvollen way,
William Peters has his quarters in an
old-fashioned rambling farmstead, buried
in a big old garden, and very quaint and
unconventional, with a large yard over-
shadowed by venerable trees, under which
our illustration shows Mme. Peters, herself
a talented artist, calling her pigeons to her
feet from the old-time dove cote.
G. B.
PROF. CARL LOCHER IN HIS STUDIO AT THE SKAW, DENMARK
It is proposed to hold a comprehen-
sive Loan Exhibition of Miniatures in
Berlin during the coming autumn, and we
have been asked by the Committee to
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having the whole structure removed
to Copenhagen. It was rather a
serious undertaking and some scep-
tical people shook their heads, but
the venture proved a decided success,
and Mr. Schwartz is now possessed
of a singularly charming and pic-
turesque home, the interior of which,
with its irregularity—the house is
built on a steep slope, the one side
being a story lower than the other
—and its many excellent pictures
and pieces of antique furniture, is
in perfect harmony with its exterior
beauty.
Louis Moe, the admirable etcher,
of whose work several examples have
appeared in The Studio, forms
a natural link between Denmark
and Norway, living, as he does, in Copenhagen
during the winter and spending his summers at his
Norwegian mountain home, Juvland Sater, in
Thelemarken. Although I only know it and the
country around it from Mme. Moe’s splendid
photographs, I am greatly impressed with its
quaint, original beauty—just the home one might
expect an artist like Louis Moe to have built for
himself, made beautiful by wild roses and water-
lilies and field flowers, and much of the wood-
work done in fantastic forms, the outcome of his
never flagging imagination. On many an evening
Moe gathers his friends and neighbours around
his old-fashioned fireplace, when weird and stirring
tales are told of the bear and the wolf of the
MR. L. moe’s WORKSHOP AT JUVLAND SATER
neighbouring mountains, or of ancient Trold and
such-like, or of the peaceful beaver, which rare
animal also must be counted amongst Moe’s many
interesting neighbours.
Most Norwegian artists, however, seem to have
chosen Christiania, or its immediate vicinity, for
their place of residence, and several of them have
there very charming houses, amongst them the
famous painter Erik Werenskjold, Frithiof Nan-
sen’s next-door neighbour, and whose house con-
tains much of interest, although the truly delightful
view of the Christiania Fjord is, perhaps, its
greatest attraction. In the same direction, but
nearer the town, lies Thorolf Holmboe’s house,
light and chaste within and without, white pre-
dominating ; some of the rooms having
benefited by Holmboe’s pronounced de-
corative talent—a sweetly pretty home
which charming Mme. Holmboes love of
flowers makes prettier still. On the other
side of Christiania, up Holmenvollen way,
William Peters has his quarters in an
old-fashioned rambling farmstead, buried
in a big old garden, and very quaint and
unconventional, with a large yard over-
shadowed by venerable trees, under which
our illustration shows Mme. Peters, herself
a talented artist, calling her pigeons to her
feet from the old-time dove cote.
G. B.
PROF. CARL LOCHER IN HIS STUDIO AT THE SKAW, DENMARK
It is proposed to hold a comprehen-
sive Loan Exhibition of Miniatures in
Berlin during the coming autumn, and we
have been asked by the Committee to
224