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Hansen, Peter Marius
(b Fåborg, 13 May 1868; d Fåborg, 6 Oct 1928). Danish painter. He studied at the Kunsternes Studieskole in Copenhagen (1884–90). Hansen specialized in genre paintings with a great variety of motifs, drawn partly from the countryside and partly from provincial towns or cities in Denmark and Italy. He usually spent his summers at Fåborg on the island of Fyn, where he was strongly influenced by the activities in the town and by the surrounding countryside. Here he painted youths skating and bathing, as well as workmen (e.g. Shipwrights at Fåborg Harbour, c. 1922; Århus, Kstmus.), and landscapes showing the fields being sown or harvested. In the winters he lived mostly in Copenhagen, where his favourite motifs were city children and hooligans, including details such as the colour play on the house walls in the sunlight, or the shadow of a leaf reflected on a gable. As a contrast to his time on Fyn, Hansen made many visits to Italy, which had a decisive influence on his work. There are numerous paintings from Naples and Pompeii, depicting the sunburnt landscape of the Italian peasant in an unsentimental and realistic fashion, with both humour and a deep understanding; this sympathy for the people he portrayed was a major characteristic of his work, whether he was painting a child, a farmer, a beggar or an eccentric. Though Hansen’s work is naturalistic, it is connected to Impressionism in its rhythmic forms and in the richness of its colouring.
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