Drachmann, Holger
Holger Henrik Herholt Drachmann, 1846-1908, marinemaler og digter
Født: 9.10.1846 i København (Amagertorv 9, i dag Strøget) Holger Drachmann var så lang, da han blev født, at faren skulle have udbrudt: "får han da aldrig nogen ende" . Tolv år gammel kunne han ikke passe farens aflagte bukser - de var for korte, selv om faderen ikke var nogen lille mand.
Gift:
1. gang 3. november 1871 med Vilhelmine Charlotte Erichsen (1852-1935)
1 barn - Eva
Parret gik fra hinanden i 1874 og blev skilt i 1878, hvorefter Vilhelmine giftede sig med proprietær Valdemar Hilarius-Kalkau, med hvem hun fik 3 børn på Gundsøgaard, Gundsømagle ved Roskilde og adopterede den 7-årige Eva.
2. gang 1879 med Emmy Culmsee (1854-1928) søster til Polly Drewsen, med hvem Drachmann havde en datter - Gerda)
4 børn - Skilt 1903
1887 Affære med Amanda Nilsson ("Edith")
1901 Affære med Ingeborg Andersen (Skagens Rose)
3. gang 1903 med Soffi Lasson (1873-1917) (Sofies søstre Oda og Alexandra var gift med hhv. Chr. Krohg og Frits Taulow)
Tredje søster Bokken var også tæt på Drachmann en periode.
Død: 14.1.1908 (Hornbæk, begravet Skagen -urne på Grenen)
Lokationer i Skagen
Relationer
Ingeborg Andersen (Skagens Rose)
Roland Bilde, organist (skrev melodien til "Erindring")
Wolle Wip naboen som var stand-in for Drachmann som model
Anekdote fra Alba Schwartz: Den nye tid i oplevelser og indtryk (bind 2) p. 190:
Krøyer fik, efter Drachmanns død, en bestilling på et portræt af Drachmann. I stedet for at male efter et tidligere billede eller fotografi, brugte Krøyer Holger Drachmanns nabo, avlsbruger Ole Christoffersen, kaldet Wolle Vip som model. Han lignede Drachmann i statur. Wolle Vip boede til venstre for Villa Pax, nuværende adresse Hans Baghsvej 19.
Holger Henrik Herholt Drachmann, 1846-1908, marine painter and poet
Born: 9.10.1846 in Copenhagen (Amagertorv 9, today Strøget) Holger Drachmann was so tall when he was born that his father is said to have exclaimed: "he will never have an end". Twelve years old, he could not fit his father's discarded trousers - they were too short, even though his father was no small man.
Married:
1st time 3 November 1871 to Vilhelmine Charlotte Erichsen (1852-1935)
1 child - Eva
The couple separated in 1874 and divorced in 1878, after which Vilhelmine married proprietor Valdemar Hilarius-Kalkau, with whom she had 3 children at Gundsøgaard, Gundsømagle near Roskilde and adopted 7-year-old Eva.
2nd time 1879 with Emmy Culmsee (1854-1928) sister of Polly Drewsen, with whom Drachmann had a daughter - Gerda)
4 children - Divorced 1903
1887 Affair with Amanda Nilsson ("Edith")
1901 Affair with Ingeborg Andersen (Skagens Rose)
3rd time 1903 with Soffi Lasson (1873-1917) (Sofie's sisters Oda and Alexandra were married to Chr. Krohg and Frits Taulow respectively)
Third sister Bokken was also close to Drachmann for a time.
Death: 14.1.1908 (Hornbæk, buried Skagen - urn on Grenen)
Locations in Skagen
Villa Pax, Hans Baghsvej 21
Drachmann's House "Pax"
Relations
Ingeborg Andersen (Rose of Skagen)
Roland Bilde, organist (wrote the melody for "Erindring")
Wolle Wip the neighbour who was a stand-in for Drachmann as a model
Anecdote from Alba Schwartz: The New Age in Experiences and Impressions (vol. 2) p. 190:
After Drachmann's death, Krøyer received a commission for a portrait of Drachmann. Instead of painting from an earlier picture or photograph, Krøyer used Holger Drachmann's neighbour, the breeder Ole Christoffersen, called Wolle Vip, as a model. He resembled Drachmann in stature. Wolle Vip lived to the left of Villa Pax, now Hans Baghsvej 19.
Biografi i relation til Skagen
Holger Drachmann kom på besøg i Skagen sammen med norske maler Fritz Thaulow i 1872 og kom regelmæssigt tilbage de næste 30 år.
Sammen med Thaulow indlogerede han sig på Brøndums, hvor de måtte tage til takke med fisk til middagen. Det gik an, men at vinkælderen var under vand accepterede Drachmann ikke og gik selv i dybet efter vinen.
I 1902 købte han bager Høms hus i Vesterby. Huset var bygget af lærer Høm oprindeligt.
I 1903 indgik han sit 3. ægteskab, nu med hustruen Soffi Lasson og til hende forærede han Villa Pax.
I den strøm af kunstnere, der i de efterfølgende år kom til Skagen, var Drachmann én af dem, der kom tættest på den lokale fiskerbefolkning. Nok rystede man på hovedet af de sære malere, deres manerer og deres fester, men hos Drachmann fandt man en oprigtig interesse for søens folk og deres levevilkår.
Da man nægtede redningsmanden Lars Kruse hans velfortjente Dannebrogstegn fór Drachmann i blækhuset og leverede i 1879 det indignerede skrift Lars Kruse - en skildring fra virkelighedens og sandets regioner. Lars Kruse fik sit hæderstegn.
Og da man i 1904 lagde grundstenen til byggeriet af havnen og inviterede politikere og embedsmænd til fest med lange gafler, hvem bød så fiskerne på punch og bal i haven ved sit hus? Drachmann!!
Drachmann døde på nervesanatorium i Hornbæk 1908 og er urnesat på Grenen. Han ønskede sin aske spredt i havet, men det var ikke tilladt dengang.
Biography in relation to Skagen
In 1872 he visited Skagen with the Norwegian painter Fritz Thaulow, and he returned frequently during the next 30 years.
Holger Drachmann was quiet a womanizer - he was married three times and had some affairs in between.
He bought a house in the town in 1902; a house built in 1828 that had been owned by a baker by the name of Høm, in the area of the town known as “Vesterby”.
At this time he was preparing for his third marriage, to Sofie Lasson. He extended the house by adding a studio with a large, four-sectioned window, and called the house “Villa Pax”.
Drachmann took a genuine interest in the local population. When a rescuer, Lars Kruse, was denied his medal of honor, Holger Drachmann wrote an article about this which helped Lars Kruse to receive his medal - even though 20 years late.
And in 1904 when they started building the harbour, all the politicians and civil servants were invited to a grand party, but not the fishermen and workers - so Drachmann invited them to punch and dancing in his garden.
1908, only six years after he bought the house Drachmann died at a Nerve Sanatorium in Hornbæk, Sealand, and an urn containing his ashes was placed in a burial chamber on the famous sand spit Grenen that forms the northern tip of Denmark.
Immediately after his death the idea arose to convert “Pax” into a memorial for him. The house was opened to the public on June 4th 1911.
The museum’s collection of oil paintings consists mostly of Drachmann’s marine paintings, but there are also pictures by many of the painters from the artists’ colony at Skagen: P.S.Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen and Anna and Michael Ancher.
In the annexe to the museum there is a photographic exhibition about Drachmann.
Drachmann’s House is the setting every year for the popular “Drachmann evenings”, at which there are readings, music and talks about the author’s life and works.
Drachmann cigaren, reklame
Fra FK Clarkfeldt på Facebook har jeg hugget denne:
I august 1904 virkede han i en reklame for Lorne Whisky – tegnet af Sophus Jürgensen.
"Direktøren: ”Naa, kære Drachmann, skal vi saa stive ”Det grønne Haab” af med en Whisky?” Digteren: ”Du vèd, jeg hader Whisky, men skal vi endelig have en, skal det være LORNE WHISKY, det er jo den eneste drikkelige, vi har her i Landet”.
Det siges, at ”Villa Pax” i årene indtil digterens død, havde et mindre lager af Lorne Whisky, som han skænkede rigeligt af, når Skagensmalerne var på besøg.
Reklamer for Drachmanncigaren - eksemplerne her er fra en islandsk avis 1908:
Links og litteratur
Skagens Museum http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/samlingen/kunstnerne/holger-drachmann/
http://img.kb.dk/ma/cn/forord/CNU_I_07_pr.pdf
Lambert: Skagen en kunstnerkoloni, en introduktion til skagenmalerne, 2001
Lambert: Drachmann & Drachmanns Hus, 2013
Drachmans Hus & Poul Bernth: Drachmans Hus, en introduktion, 1992
Johannes Ursin: Holger Drachmann - Liv og Værker, Rosenkilde og Bagger (bind I og II)