Michael Ancher

A Young Fisherman on His Way Home from the Seagull Hunt, 1877

A boy in a sou’wester and worn work attire heads home after a successful seagull hunt. Three dead birds slung over his shoulder and his back turned to the painting’s viewer, he trudges across the damp sandy beach strewn with greenish-brown algae and pebbles. The realistic style of painting, which depicts both the overcast sky and the churning sea, makes the beach seem a wet and cold, inhospitable place. Michael Ancher paid his first visit to Skagen in the northernmost reaches of Denmark in 1874....

Signatur und Datierung: 18 ma 77., unten rechts, handschriftlich

(…); Kunsthandel, Dänemark (2002); MKdW (2002).
Nicola Carola Heuwinkel: Michael Ancher 1849–1927, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von Thorsten Sadowsky, Alkersum/Föhr 2013, S. 38, Abb. S. 39.

Michael Ancher (1849 - 1927)

A Young Fisherman on His Way Home from the Seagull Hunt

1877

Oil on canvas

52.5 x 37.2 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 ANC 07

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2005

Not on display