Holger Drachmann

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Holger Drachmann 1888

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

Life

Drachmann's grave

Holger Drachmann was the son of a marine doctor. He studied art in Copenhagen and became a painter after completing his studies , after making the acquaintance of the painter Carl Bloch , who had returned from abroad, at the age of 19 . But he soon gave up art in favor of journalism . Travels through Europe and a long stay in England as a journalist made him aware of the social grievances of the time.

Back in Copenhagen, Drachmann joined the circle of poets of the modern breakthrough around Georg Brandes . With his enthusiastic homage to the Paris Commune and ironic attacks on the intellectual narrowness of Denmark, he was a welcome guest there.

In his later love and nature poetry, the sea was mainly sung about as a symbol of unrest, freedom and strength; In his mostly realistic stories, he described the fishermen's life with a sense of home . In Drachmann's work, the problem of the Danish bourgeoisie was reflected very precisely : the vacillation between bourgeois and liberal . The same thing happened to the poet; unsteady in life and in his outlook, he is changing from democratic to nationalistic. Criticism of the decline of bourgeois society, whose demise he prophesied, also appears again and again in the works.

In 1902 Holger Drachmann settled in Skagen and took up painting again. He died at the age of 61 in Hornbæk on Zealand. The urn with his ashes was buried in Skagen on the headland of Grenen. His home was turned into a public museum in 1911.

Works

  • Vølund Smed (1894)
  • Unge Viser (1892)
  • Forskrevet (1890)
  • Sangenes Bog (1889)
  • Midsommervisen - Vi elsker vort country (1885)
  • I Storm and Silence (1875)
  • Med Kul og Kridt (1872)
  • Ranker and Roser (1879)
  • Tannhauser (1877)

See also

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Drachmann, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herholdt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1908
Place of death Hornbæk , Zealand , Denmark