Holger Drachmann

Holger Drachmann ( born October 9, 1846 in Copenhagen, † January 14, 1908 in Hornbæk, Zealand ) was a Danish painter and poet.

Drach man was the son of a Navy doctor. He studied art in Copenhagen and became a painter after studying after the age of 19 he made acquaintance with the returned from abroad painter Carl Bloch there. However, the art he soon abandoned in favor of journalism. Travel through Europe and a longer stay in England as a journalist led him the social ills of the time in mind.

Back in Copenhagen, to Drach man closed the circle of poets of the modern breakthrough in Brandes. With his enthusiastic homage to the Paris Commune and ironic attacks on the narrow-mindedness of Denmark he was there a welcome guest.

Later in his love and nature poetry of the sea was mostly sung as a symbol of unrest, freedom and strength; In his mostly realistic stories he described attached to their home life of the fishermen. In Drachmanns work was reflected very closely the issue of the Danish bourgeoisie resist: the oscillation between bourgeois and liberal. The poet fared as similar; unsettled in life as in the mind he turns into nationalist from democratic. Even criticism of the decay of bourgeois society whose downfall he predicted, appears again and again in the works.

Holger Drach man died at the age of 61 years on January 14, 1908 in Hornbaek on Zealand. The urn containing his ashes was in his grave at Skagen, not far from Grenen, the northern tip of Denmark, buried.

Works

• Volund Smed (1894 )
• Unge Viser (1892 )
• Forskrevet (1890)
• Sangenes Bog (1889 )
• I Storm og Silence ( 1875)
• Med Kul above Kridt (1872 )
• Ranker og Roser (1879 )
• Tannhäuser (1877 )