Krøyer, Vibeke

Biography in relation to Skagen

Karen Vibeke Krøyer was the daughter of the painter Peder Severin (Søren) Krøyer (23-07-1851 - 21-11-1909) and his wife Marie Martha Mathilde Triepcke (11-06-1867 - 25-05-1940). She was named in April 1895, but not baptised until 23 years later, on 8 September 1918 in Thurø Church by Pastor Schramm. Ten days later she married Otto Bredahl Christensen.

After her parents' divorce in 1905, her mother settled on the Alfvén farm down by Lake Siljan at Tällberg in Sweden with Hugo Alfvén. Vibeke Krøyer stayed with her father in Skagen, which meant that she was often looked after by others, for example the Brodersen family, Doctor Nærum in Frederikshavn or the Tuxen family, when Krøyer was unable to look after her, hospitalised or travelling.

After P.S. Krøyer's death in 1909, Vibeke lived for long periods with the Tuxen family in Villa Dagminne, where the family helped Vibeke through her grief.

She graduated from high school and trained as a journalist in her early years. She was an actress at the Folketeatret and appeared in several silent films in the 1910s.

For a number of years she was associated with the Berlingske Hus - at Berlingske Tidende and Berlingske Aftenavis from 1 October 1921 and from 1 January 1941 as a loose employee at the Berlingske Blade. She wrote articles for both Berlingske Tidende and the magazine "Landet", then published by the house.

When her half-sister Margita died in 1962, the Swedish estate Alfvéngården fell to her, but she found it too large and sold it. Instead, she bought a smaller house nearby.

In the late 1960s, Vibeke Krøyer moved to Sweden.

The last time Vibeke Krøyer appeared in connection with her famous painter father was in 1980, when she came to Copenhagen to see the major Krøyer exhibition at the Kunstforeningen.

When she died in 1985, by an irony of fate, she was buried next to her mother in Leksand Cemetery.

Vibeke left two sons: Klaus Rudolph Krøyer Dahl (1923-1981) and Rolf Krøyer Dahl (1925-2003).