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of the "typical" bohemian poet with a turbulent private life. His relationship with various women (his "muses") often made a great scandal but it was the fuel of his inspiration. Especially "Edith", a cabaret singer who was his mistress during the 1890s and inspired much of his best love poetry. His often rhetorical approach to poetry and occasional "wordiness" has led some critics to compare him with English poet, playwright and novelist
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Drachmann is one of the most popular Danish poets of modern time though much of his work is now forgotten. He unites modern rebellionist attitudes and a really romantic view of women and history. His personal appearance often almost overshadowed his literary merits and in many ways he played the role
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It was about this time that Drachmann broke with Brandes and the Radicals, and set himself at the head of a sort of nationalist or popular-Conservative movement in Denmark. He continued to celebrate the life of the fishermen and sailors in books, whether in prose or verse, which were the most popular
320:(1883) were among these. At the beginning of the 1890s he again joined the Brandes fraction without giving up his national motives. His many changing sides has often been regarded as opportunism but were probably caused by his eternal enthusiasm and longing for a positive fundament of his art. 186:(1842–1927) and without abandoning art, began to devote most of his time more to literature. At various periods he travelled very extensively in England, Scotland, France, Spain and Italy, and his literary career began by his sending letters about his journeys to the Danish newspapers. 133:
by the name of Emmy. They fell in love and got married. They adopted Polly's daughter and had four more children of their own. In 1887 she became seriously ill, and one of their daughters died the same year. Perhaps suffering from stress, he fled into a relation with cabaret singer
129:. They had one daughter, Eva. In 1874 his marriage ended. He was then involved with a married woman named Polly for a short while. Shortly after she gave birth to a daughter, she broke contact with him. He then met with a young girl in 113:) although his painting took second place to his writing. In 1903, he and his third wife Soffi settled in Skagen's Vesterby in their Villa Pax. Later in life, Drachmann returned to art, often painting pictures of ships and the sea. 271:
During the succeeding years he visited most of the principal countries of the world, but particularly familiarizing himself, by protracted voyages, with the sea and with the life of man in maritime places. In 1879 he published
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Owing to the early death of his mother, he was left much to his own devices and developed a fondness for semi-poetical performances, organising his companions in heroic games, in which he himself took such roles as those of
400:, 1899), in which Drachmann speaks in his own person. There is practically no story in this autobiographical volume, which abounds in lyrical passages. In 1899 he produced his romantic play 814: 1340: 182:. From 1866 to 1870 he learned, under Professor C F Sørensen, to become a marine painter, with some success. In about 1870 he came under the influence of Danish critic and scholar 1372: 674: 138:(1866–1953), whom he called Edith and who became his biggest muse. He would have many muses in his life, but on his deathbed he said that his two biggest muses were 1474: 1444: 1292: 263: 1464: 1348: 54:, Denmark. He was the son of Andreas Georg Drachmann (1810-1892) and Wilhelmine Marie Stæhr (1820-1857). His father was a surgeon with the 819: 220:, 1875), proved that Drachmann was a poet with a real vocation, and he began to produce books in prose and verse with great rapidity. 949: 280:), amatory lyrics of a very high order of melody, in which he showed a great advance in technical art. To the same period belongs 1082: 464: 1388: 878: 857: 324: 252:(1877), which despite reference to the medieval legend and Wagner's opera from 1845, is a contemporary love story set in 1479: 1469: 710: 244:, 1877), a series of impressions made on Drachmann by a visit to the scenes of the war with Germany. Drachman's novel 521: 487: 1364: 777: 755: 228:, 1876) contained three realistic stories of contemporary life. But he returned to his true field in his magnificent 179: 59: 748: 547: 1439: 1434: 1396: 236:, 1877), and won the passionate admiration of his countrymen by his prose work, with interludes in verse, called 1454: 982: 942: 357:(1897) established him as the most popular playwright of Denmark. In 1894 he published a volume of fantastic 178:
Behind in his studies, he did not enter university until 1865, leaving it in 1866 to become a student at the
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to learn to paint. There he met his first wife Vilhelmine Erichsen (1852-1935), whom he married in 1871 in
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Holger Drachmann statue at Frederiksberg in Copenhagen by Hans Christian Holter
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in rhymed verse, a collection which contains some of Drachmann's best work.
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In 1882 Drachmann published his fine translation, or paraphrase, of
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Drachmann first visited Skagen in 1872 with the Norwegian painter
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Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore
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After returning home, he settled for some time on the island of
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Danish Writers from the Reformation to Decadence, 1550-1900
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had persuaded him that a new and glorious era was at hand.
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in Copenhagen, and has remained a classic. His tragedies
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Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife
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dramatist
Skagen artistic colony
Modern Breakthrough
Copenhagen
Royal Danish Navy
St. Peter's Church
Royal Danish Naval
Peder Tordenskjold
Niels Juel

Skagen
Frits Thaulow
Skagen Painters
Bornholm
Gentofte
Hamburg
Amanda Nielsen
Grenen
Skagen
Drachmanns Hus

Peder Severin Krøyer
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Georg Brandes
Bornholm
seascapes
Franco-German War
Paris Commune
Fredensborg

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