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The Painter Ane Marie Hansen
Holga Reinhard (Danish, 1853–1902)
1897
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 183 cm, width 112.5 cm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
An interior is a fitting symbol of the space allowed for female artists; they were quite limited in terms of both their social life and what was considered suitable subject matter for women. But the home and studio also provided a setting for alternative professional networks. In this monumental image Holga Reinhard has portrayed a colleague whom she presumably met at the Vilhelm Kyhn art school for women, where both women studied in the early 1870s. Ane Marie Hansen appears both statuesque and reserved. Ane Marie Hansen had her debut at Charlottenborg in 1884 and exhibited there more than 30 times. But she is not featured in any museum collections. Her portrait serves as a respectful memorial to one of the many female artists who never won a place in art history’s canon.
