#fynboerne

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Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen (June 1, 1902 – 1996) was a Danish Academy-trained painter. He was friends with the Fynbo-painters but followed his own path artistically with his use of heavy earth colors and shapes.

Above: View from Marbæk over Roskilde Fjord, ca. 1941

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Lars Swane (Oct. 19, 1913 - 2002) was a Danish artist who specialized in color lithographs of flowers and objects in a window with a pleasant landscape backdrop. His parents, Sigurd and Christine Swane, were both artists, and part of the Fynboerne group.

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Niels Hansen (June 22, 1880 - 1946) was a Danish marine, landscape and portrait painter, regarded as one of the four great Fynbomalere. He studied briefly at Zahrtmann's school and spent some time in Paris where he picked up some influence from the Impressionists, and other than that he was self-taught.

Hansen was a co-founder of Grønningen and frequently showed at Charlottenborg. He settled on the small island of Thurø, south of Funen, and lived there for 25 years, not least because he could indulge his passion for yachting there.

Above: Portrait of Niels Fischer (enjoying a pipe and a Red Tuborg), 1917 - oil on canvas (SMK)

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Lauritz Mikkelsen (Feb. 25, 1879 - 1966) was a Swedish-born, Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen in the 1890s and later settled on the island of Funen. He is sometimes associated with the group of Fynbomalere...

His art was mostly animal and landscape painting, and he is well represented at Danish regional museums.

Above: Græssende Køer, 1954(?) - aquarelle and ink on paper (Privately owned)

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Alfred Simonsen (Dec. 16, 1906 - 1935) was a Danish landscape painter, who died very young from phlebitis, leaving only about 35 canvases behind. Simonsen studied at the Royal Academy, and was a co-founder of the artists’ group Corner. His work is similar to his contemporaries in the groups Fynboerne and the Odsherred painters.

Above: March Landscape, 1934 - oil on canvas (Trapholt, Kolding)

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Ernst Syberg (Jan. 12, 1906 - 1981) was a Danish landscape painter in the Funen and Odsherred tradition. His father Fritz Syberg was a Zahrtmann disciple, but Ernst was autodidact as a painter, having studied law before changing careers.

He showed at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling from 1933, and became a member of Corner in 1934.

Above - a landscape study in oil - no date given (1950s-70s), found at Gallerie Zeuthen.