books0977: A Girl from Fanø Standing in the Doorway, Reading a…



books0977:

A Girl from Fanø Standing in the Doorway, Reading a Book (1884). Johan Julius Exner (Danish, 1825-1910). Oil on canvas.

Starting in the late 1870s Exner began painting themes from Fanø, a Danish island in the North Sea. He came to the island for the first time in 1877 and spent the summers there annually for years after. He had a studio at Sønderho Kro. There he found a group of people whose lives interested him deeply, a folk who were fast becoming extinguished in the social changes of that time.