Gaihede, familien

Mændene i slægten var fiskere og bosiddende i Østerby (Lars på Østerbyvej 35 og Niels på Kjeldergangen 8) nær Vippefyret. Flere af familiens medlemmer supplerede deres indtægter ved at lade sig engagere som modeller for kunstnerne.

The men in the family were fishermen and lived in Østerby (Lars at Østerbyvej 35 and Niels at Kjeldergangen 8) near Vippefyret (The Bascule Lighthouse). Several members of the family supplemented their income by being engaged as models for the artists.

Lars Christensen Gaihede,

(22.september 1805 - 10. december 1887)

Gift med Maren Sophie Christensen Gaihede (født Larsdatter Knæp)

Skildret af Martinus Rørby og Anna og Michael Ancher

Lars Christensen Gaihede,

(22 September 1805 - 10 December 1887)

Married to Maren Sophie Christensen Gaihede (born Larsdatter Knæp)

Described by Martinus Rørby and Anna and Michael Ancher

Niels Christensen Gaihede,

(6.1.1816 - 27.12.1890)

Kaldet "Niels Rundtenom"

Gift med Ane Christensen Nielsdatter af Sørrig

Skildret af Christian Krohg og Anna og Michael Ancher

Niels Christensen Gaihede,

(6.1.1816 - 27.12.1890)

Called "Niels Rundtenom"

Married to Ane Christensen Nielsdatter of Sørrig

Described by Christian Krohg and Anna and Michael Ancher

Ane Christensen Gaihede,

1812 - 1904

Gift med Niels Gaihede

Ane Christensen Gaihede,

1812 - 1904

Married to Niels Gaihede

Niels og Ane havde desuden en dødfødt søn

Niels and Ane als had a stillborn son

Rasmus Gaihede,

12.9.1855 - 15.7.1936

Nickname "Rasmus on the Hill" - changed spelling from Gaihede to Gajhede in 1906.

Married 26.11.1880 to Marentine Nielsen Markstrøm

Same age as the artists. Continued to dry fish in his old age. Rasmus died at the age of 81 after being hit by a car on Skovvej in Skagen.

Marentine Nielsen Markstrøm

(daughter-in-law of Lars and Niels, married to Rasmus), 1850 - 1937

Same age as the artists. Went blind in her old age.

Rasmus and Marentine's children:

Christian Krohg: "A mother braids her little daughter's hair", 1888

In the painterly depictions of their physiognomy, dress and domestic surroundings, the Gaihede family became exponents of the hard-working, frugal fishing families, whose lives the potential buyers of the pictures had very little knowledge of.