Valdemar Irminger (1850–1938)

Irminger painted children at a Danish hospital with such tenderness that the works won him back-to-back Academy medals in 1888 and 1889.

ABOUT

Valdemar Heinrich Nicolas Irminger (29 December 1850 – 10 February 1938) was a Danish painter. == Biography == Born in Copenhagen, Irminger attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1867 and 1873. He went to Italy on a scholarship from 1884 to 1887. In 1888, he won the Academy's medal for Motiv fra Børnehospitalet ved Refsnæs (View from the Children's Hospital at Refsnæs) and the following year for Fra et Børnehospital (From a Children's Hospital). His brightly-col…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Landscape with a red deer stag and two hinds. 1869 Landscape with hills near Jyderup. 1878 Selbstporträt 1883 All Saints' Day. A widower in a cemetary for the poor in Rome. 1886 · Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg A roaring lion in the Colosseum. 1886 From the Old Colosseum 1888 · ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Peder Severin KrøyerDanish Golden Age / Realism Laurits Andersen RingDanish Realism Michael AncherSkagen Painters / Realism Wilhelm MarstrandDanish Golden Age

Influenced

Sigurd SwaneDanish Post-Impressionism Agnes Slott-MøllerDanish Symbolism / Romanticism Anna AncherSkagen Painters / Impressionism