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Peter Kroyer |
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| Born: 1851 - Died: 1909. |
| Peter Kroyer had a very difficult start to his life with it being disrupted by his mother being deemed unfit to bring Peter up as a child. Eventually with his foster family he moved to Copenhagen. He started his art education at nine years of age under private tutelage, and was enrolled in Copenhagen's Technical Institute the following year. At the age of 19 he completed his studies at the Royal Danish Art Academy, where he studied with Frederik Vermehren. During1873 he was awarded the gold medal, and a scholarship.
His official debut as a painter was in 1871 at with a portrait of a friend, painter Frans Schwartz at Charlottenborg. He exhibited regularly at Charlottenborg throughout his lifetime.
Heinrich Hirschsprung, in 1874, bought his first painting from Krøyer, establishing a long-standing patronage. Hirschsprung's collection of art forms the basis of the Hirschsprung Museum in Copenhagen.
Between 1871 and 1881, Kroyer travelled Europe extensively, meeting artists and developing his artistic skills, he undoubtedly came under the influence of his contemporaries and impressionism.
Kroyer returned to Denmark in 1882, he spent June-October at Skagen, then a remote fishing village at the northern tip of Denmark, painting themes from the local life, as well as depictions of the other artistic and influential people who lived in and visited Skagen during those times. He would continue to be associated with Skagen, over many years. He divided his time between rented houses in Skagen during the summer, a winter apartment in Copenhagen where he worked on his large commissioned portraits, and travels outside of the country.
In 1889 Kroyer married Marie Martha Mathilde Triepcke after a whirlwind romance, she is often depicted in Kroyer’s work, however it was not to last and in 1905 they separated.
In 1909 Kroyer died, at 58 years of age after several years of declining health from advanced syphilis. He had numerous hospital admissions, having suffered from bouts of an hereditary disposition towards mental instability.
His eyesight failed him gradually over the last ten years of his life until he was totally blind. Ever the optimist, he painted almost to the end of his life. He painted some of his last masterpieces while half blind. He would joke that the eyesight in the one working eye became better with the loss of the other eye.
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