Marie Krøyer

Maria ( Marie) Martha Mathilde Krøyer ( born June 11, 1867 in Frederiksberg when Mary Martha Matilda Triepcke, also Triepke; † 25 May 1940 Stockholm ) was a Danish painter and architect.

Life

Maria Martha Mathilde Triepcke was the daughter of weaving Director Wilhelm August Eduard Max Triepcke and Minna ( Mina ) born in 1867 and grew up in Augusta Kindler Copenhagen, even though their parents were German. Since the Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder opened the access to studies for women only in 1888, she took private lessons on a drawing school at Carl Thomsen. She thought to open a school of painting, but then traveled to Paris in 1888, where she studied painting with Guillaume Courtois, Alfred Philippe Roll and P. de Chavanne.

In 1887 she was the 16 years older PS Krøyer for En Duet model, they met again in Paris and married on July 23, 1889 in Augsburg, where her parents lived at the time. On their honeymoon in Italy when Marie Krøyer typhus, which she threw back physically and in the painting. Back in Denmark in 1891, the couple settled in Skagen in Vesterby. Marie Krøyer return to Skagen led to unrest and intrigue between Krøyer and the painter Viggo Johansen and his wife Martha, whereupon the Johansens for 25 years never returned to Skagen.

Marie Krøyer participated in the Den frie Udstilling ( "The free exhibition" ) in 1891, in part, along with his friend, the painter couple Agnes and Harald Slott -Møller, Johan Rohde and JF Willumsen part. Krøyer worked hard, but realized that a breakthrough was too difficult, even though she had a well-known painter at her side. In her generation of painters, they paved the way for future generations of women. Your self-criticism was hard, but her sense of color and aesthetic subtleties of her impressionistic style controversy. Fransk Markedsplads, ( " French Market Place " ) is a naturalistic paintings of 1898 and the last of their total of 20 registered.

She was also inspired by the English designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who made ​​them, even to design furniture for your home in Skagen and Bergensgade in Copenhagen, which can be found now in the collection of the National Museum. She was also influenced by artists such as William Morris and Edward Burne -Jones, members of The Arts and Crafts Movement, which dealt with both the art itself as well as handicrafts and home furnishings, and thus protested against the industrialization in the area.

In 1895 she got her first daughter Vibeke (5 January 1895-29. April 1985). Her husband was ill in 1900 and came into Middelfart Sindssygehospital, making their art work was a temporary end. As he got better, they traveled to Germany.

While her husband had to run errands in Paris in 1902, Marie Krøyer traveled alone to Taormina, Sicily. Here she fell in love five years younger Swedish composer and choir director Hugo Alfvén, whereupon she asked her husband for a divorce. This, however, invited Alfvén one to Skagen, where he arrived in the summer of 1904, together with a composition Midsommarvaka, as svensk rapsodi ( " Swedish Rhapsody" ) was known. In 1905 Marie Krøyer expected of Alfvén one daughter ( Margita ), whereupon Krøyer consented to the divorce. Their first daughter Vibeke turned after the divorce from her and the father. However, Alfvén married Marie Krøyer not because he feared it would hurt his career as a choral conductor in Uppsala to have the well-known Danish artist stretched out the woman.

Together with Alfvén she lived at Lake Siljan in Tällberg, Sweden, where she worked as an architect her main work Alfvénsgården ( " Alfvén yard" ) created. They built there building in the style of the region around the farm that reflected their sense of beauty.

Although they soon found out that she had cheated Alfvén from the beginning, she married him in 1912 because they did not want to grow up without a father of her two children, as she wrote in a letter to her friend Agnes Slott -Møller. The marriage was not happy, and in 1928 her husband wanted a divorce, which they initially rejected. Since their relationship but continued to deteriorate, they were divorced in 1936. The daughter Margita received Alfvénsgården. Marie Krøyer spent her last years alone in Stockholm. She died in 1940 and was buried in the churchyard of Leksand. Her daughter Vibeke was buried after her death at her side.

Bille August 2012 filmed the life of the artist under the title Marie Krøyer by Birgitte Hjort Sørensen in the title role and Søren Sætter - Let when Peder Severin Krøyer.