Ancher, Anna
Anna Kirstine Brøndum 1859-1935 var datter af hotelejer Erik og Ane Brøndum. Anna mødte i en tidlig alder maleren Michael Ancher med hvem hun senere giftede sig. Anna Ancher blev selv en af datidens dygtigste kvindelige malere.
Født:
18. august 1859 i Skagen
Forlovet: 1877 med Michael Ancher
Gift: 18. august 1880 (21 år) med Michael Ancher
Børn: Helga Ancher, 19. aug. 1883
Død: 15. april 1935 i Skagen
Begravet: Kunstnergravene, Skagen Assistents Kirkegård. Gravsted.dk
Lokationer i Skagen
Relationer
Portrætfrisen i Brøndums spisesal.
Portrætterne fra Brøndums Spisesal (Skagens Museum) af Anna og Michael Ancher er anvendt på en tidligere tusindkroneseddel.
Anna Kirstine Brøndum 1859-1935 was the daughter of hotel owner Erik and Ane Brøndum. At an early age Anna met the painter Michael Ancher, whom she later married. Anna Ancher herself became one of the most talented female painters of the time.
Born:
18 August 1859 in Skagen
Engaged: 1877 to Michael Ancher
Married: 18 August 1880 (aged 21) to Michael Ancher
Children: Helga Ancher, 19 Aug 1883
Died: 15 April 1935 in Skagen
Buried: Kunstnergravene, Skagen Assistents Cemetery. Gravesite.dk
Locations in Skagen
Brøndums Hotel
Garden House
Markvej 2
Relations
Michael Ancher
Helga Ancher
The Brøndum Family
Biografi i relation til Skagen
Anna Brøndum, datter af købmand, hotelejer Erik Brøndum (1820–90) og Ane Hedvig Møller (1826–1916).
Anekdoten om H.C.Andersens besøg på Brøndums gæstgivergård:
Erik Brøndum havde netop fået bevilling til at drive gæstgivergård, da digteren H.C.Andersen kom til Skagen og indlogerede sig hos Brøndums. H.C.Andersen kom den 17. august 1859 om eftermiddagen og havde budt byfoged Hoffmeyer på middag. Men Ane Hedevig havde sendt pigen på Grenen efter rødspætter og det tog sin tid, så Andersen, der var træt og sulten blev utålmodig og ærgerlig. Samtidig var han irriteret over Erik Brøndum, som hele tiden sad i stuen hos dem og røg tobak og blandede sig i samtalen. Hoffmeyer gik uden aftensmad og men H.C. Andersen fik dog sin kogte rødspætte kl. 23.00 - og vandbakkelse.
Men hans utilfredshed havde taget hårdt på fru Ane Brøndum, som var højgravid og måtte gå i seng. Om natten fødte hun datteren Anna (noget for tidligt).
At Anna blev født samtidig med at H. C. Andersen var på besøg, tog Ane som et tegn på at Anna skulle blive noget særligt.
Annas ungdom
Hun var den eneste af Skagensmalerne, der var født i Skagen. Hun var den femte i en søskendeflok på seks, der også talte Christen Degn Brøndum, der overtog Brøndums Hotel efter faderen. Søskende i øvrigt: Marie, Hulda, Agnes og Johan (John)
Allerede som barn viste Anna Brøndum talent for at tegne og male og modtog en første nænsom vejledning af Karl Madsen og hans malerkammerater da de som unge kunstnere kom til Skagen i 1870'ernes begyndelse. Brøndums Hotel var i en årrække samlingspunkt for Skagensmalerne, og her mødte hun i 1874 for første gang maleren Michael Ancher.
Efter sin konfirmation modtog Ancher 1875–78 undervisning på Vilhelm Kyhns tegneskole for kvinder i København, uden at nogen egentlig påvirkning kan spores. Heller ikke et senere studieophold i Paris hos Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 1888–89 (sammen med Marie Triepcke, der senere blev gift med P.S.Krøyer) fik direkte indflydelse. Anna Ancher lærte af samværet med Skagens kunstnere, men var en selvstændig, harmonisk malerbegavelse som hele livet gik sine egne veje.
Gift med Michael Ancher
Anna Brøndum og Michael Ancher blev forlovet på Annas 18 års fødselsdag og gift 3 år senere på hendes 21 års dag. Anna og Michael flyttede ind i Havehuset og i 1883 fik de datteren Helga.
Året efter købte parret ejendommen på Markvej 2, hvor de boede resten af livet.
Anna som maler
Sit ypperste som portrætkunstner nåede Ancher i skildringer af moderen, især en række billeder fra 1913 hvor den gamle fru Brøndum, set mod rummets blå baggrund, med hvid kappe, hvidt sjal og et rødt tæppe om livet sidder som indsvøbt i lys.
Endelig er "Gade i Skagen", ca. 1910, udsøgt ved motivets solfyldte nuancer, malet uden figurer en stille eftermiddag og koloristisk drevet til den yderste konsekvens.
Med en lignende konsekvens dyrkede Ancher sine intime interiører og figurstudier, af hvilke flere først blev kendt af offentligheden da Michael og Anna Anchers hus på Markvej i Skagen – efter datteren Helga Anchers død i 1964, to omfattende auktioner i 1965 og 1966 og en grundig, pietetsfuld restaurering – åbnedes som museum i 1967.
Publikum har herved fået adgang til det hjem som i kraft af ægtefællernes menneskelige egenskaber og kunstneriske autoritet blev samlingssted for nogle af tidens betydeligste malere og forfattere.
Anna Ancher værdsattes mens hun levede, vel nok højere som menneske end som maler, men at hun kunstnerisk var en pioner erkendes nu uden forbehold.
Ingen samtidig formåede som hun at komponere sine billeder alene ved farvernes samspil i lyset når det fra den tindrende himmel strømmede gennem vinduerne ind over mennesker og ting. Selv den nøgne væg i en stue, hvidkalket og grumset, forvandledes under Anchers opmærksomme iagttagelse til en flade af rigt nuanceret malerisk skønhed.
Biography in relation to Skagen
Anna Kirstine Brøndum 1859-1935 was the youngest daughter of the hotel owners Erik and Ane Brøndum.
At an early age Anna met the painter Michael Ancher whom she later married. Anna Ancher herself became one of the very best female painters of the time.
The story of H.C. Andersen’s visit to Brøndums Inn:
Erik Brøndum had just received the privileges of running an inn when the poet and fairy tale writer Hans-Christian Andersen came to Skagen and stopped at Brøndum’s. H. C. Andersen arrived on the 17th August 1859 in the afternoon and had invited the bailiff for dinner. Ane Hedvig wanted to do her best for the poet so she sent the maid to Grenen to fetch fresh soles and it lasted quite some time before she returned. H. C. Andersen who was tired and hungry was very impatient and annoyed. At the same time he disapproved of Erik Brøndum who was in the living room with them all the time smoking tobacco and interfering in the conversation. Mr. Hoffmeyer, the bailiff left without supper but H. C. Andersen eventually had his boiled sole at 11 p.m. - with choux pastry (profiteroles) for dessert.
But Mrs. Brøndum was very sorry about his dissatisfaction, and being pregnant she did not feel well and had to go to bed. During the night she gave birth to the daughter Anna (somewhat early).
Ane was sure it was an omen that Anna would be somebody very special because she was born during the visit of H. C. Andersen.
Anna’s Youth
Anna was the only one of the Skagen painters born in Skagen. She was the fifth in six siblings. Among the siblings was also Christen Degn Brøndum who took over the Brøndum’s Hotel after the father. The other siblings were Marie, Hulda, Agnes and Johan (John).
Already as a child Anna Brøndum proved her talent for drawing and painting and had her earliest careful tuition by Karl Madsen and his fellow painters when as young artists they visited Skagen in the early 1870s. For a period of years Brøndum’s Hotel was the meeting point of the Skagen painters and 1974 she met Michael Ancher for the first time here.
After her confirmation Anna attended Wilhelm Kyhn’s drawing academy for young women in Copenhagen, 1875-78, without showing any significant influence. Neither did a visit to Paris for studies prove any direct influence. (In Paris Anna was together with Marie Triepcke who later married P. S. Krøyer). Anna Ancher learned from the time she spent together with the Skagen artists, but she was an independent, harmonious, talented painter who all her life went separate ways.
Married to Michael Ancher
Anna Brøndum and Michael Ancher were engaged on the day of Anna’s 18th birthday and married 3 years later on her 21st birthday. Anna and Michael moved into the Garden house and in 1883 their daughter Helga was born.
One year later the couple purchased the property on Markvej 2, where they stayed the rest of their lives.
Anna as a Painter
Anna Ancher reached her very best in portrays when painting her mother, especially a series of paintings from 1913 when the old Mrs. Brøndum placed in the living room against a blue background wearing a white bonnet, white shawl and a red blanket round her sits as bathed in light.
Finally, the painting: “Street in Skagen”, ca. 1910, is exquisite with the sunny details, painted without figures on a quiet afternoon and the colours are as perfect as can be.
In the same way, Anna Ancher painted her intimate interior figure studies. Several of these were not known to the public before Ancher’s house on Markvej in Skagen was opened as a museum 1967 after a thorough and careful restoration. This happened after the death of Helga, the daughter of Anna and Michael Ancher’s in 1964, and was financed by two auctions 1965 and 1966 over paintings from the house.
Thus the public is admitted to the home, which due to the human properties and artistic authority was the gathering point of some of the most significant painters and authors of the time.
Anna Ancher was highly esteemed while alive, probably more as a person than as a painter, but she was a pioneer artistically which is now recognized without reservation.
None of her contemporaries were capable of composing their paintings by means of the combination of the colours and the light streaming from the sparkling sky through the window spreading over human beings and items. Even the bare wall in a room, whitewashed and muddy, will be altered by Anna Ancher to a surface of richly shaded beauty in painting.
English translation: Grete Hjort
Links og litteratur
Lamberth: Skagen en kunstnerkoloni - en introduktion til skagensmalerne, 2001
Lise Svanholm: Damerne på Skagen