'A lover of light': in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Kroyer, who had close ties to the French art scene for more than two decades. Kroyer first visited Paris in 1877, and his many letters clearly show the impact French art had on Kroyer's own development as a painter, on the artists' colony in Skagen, and on danish art history in general. In Kroyer and paris: French Connections and Nordic Colours, art historians Mette Harbo Lehmann and Dominique Lobstein describe Kroyer's artistic development from the Golden Age tradition...
'A lover of light': in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Kroyer, who had close ties to the Fre...
