Madsen, Karl

Karl (Carl) Johan Wilhelm Madsen, 1855-1938, maler, kritiker, museumsdirektør.

Karl Madsen kom til Skagen, hvor han forelskede sig i Anna Brøndums kusine, Henriette Møller. Madsen opgav senere maleriet, blev kritiker og museumsdirektør.

Født: 22. 3. 1855 i København

Gift:

1. gang 1880 med Henriette Møller (død i barselsseng 1881)

2. gang 1883 med Thora Juliane Nielsen

Død: 16. 4. 1938 i København Gravsted

Lokationer i Skagen

  • Skagens Museum

Relationer

  • Henriette Møller

Karl (Carl) Johan Wilhelm Madsen, 1855-1938, painter, critic, museum director.

Karl Madsen came to Skagen, where he fell in love with Anna Brøndum's cousin, Henriette Møller. Madsen later gave up painting and became a critic and museum director.

Born: 22. 3. 1855 in Copenhagen

Married:

1st time 1880 to Henriette Møller (died in childbirth 1881)

2nd time 1883 to Thora Juliane Nielsen

Died: 16. 4. 1938 in Copenhagen

Locations in Skagen

  • Skagen Museum

Relations

  • Henriette Møller

Biografi i relation til Skagen

Karl Madsen kom til Skagen allerede i barndommen, idet hans onkel og formynder var konsul i Frederikshavn, og fra besøg hos ham kendte han Skagen.

Fra 1873 introducerede han Christian Skredsvig, Michael Ancher og Viggo Johansen til stedet. Under sine ophold underviste han blandt andre Anna Brøndum og hendes kusiner Martha og Henriette Møller i tegning i Havehuset i Brøndums have.

Her forelskede han sig i Henriette, og de blev gift som det første par af de tre (Anna med Michael Ancher og Martha med Viggo Johansen) i 1880.

Efter Henriettes død i barselsseng kom han ikke så meget i Skagen, før han efter sin pensionering fra Statens Museum for Kunst engagerede sig i Skagens Museum.

I 1928 blev han således leder af det nyoprettede Skagens Museum (hvor flere af hans malerier findes) og skrev året efter en bog om Skagensmalerne.

Biography in relation to Skagen

Karl Madsen came to Skagen already in childhood, as his uncle and guardian was consul in Frederikshavn, and from visits to him he knew Skagen.

From 1873 he introduced Christian Skredsvig, Michael Ancher and Viggo Johansen to the place. During his stays he taught Anna Brøndum and her cousins Martha and Henriette Møller drawing in the garden house in Brøndum's garden.

Here he fell in love with Henriette, and they married as the first couple of the three (Anna to Michael Ancher and Martha to Viggo Johansen) in 1880.

After Henriette's death in childbirth, he did not spend much time in Skagen until, after his retirement from the National Museum of Art, he became involved in Skagen Museum.

In 1928 he became director of the newly established Skagen Museum (where several of his paintings are to be found) and the following year wrote a book on the Skagen painters.