Degn Brøndum [SEP] residence
Degn Brøndum
Christen Degn Brøndum (21 March 1856 – 18 April 1932) was the proprietor of Brøndums Hotel in Skagen, Denmark, which was closely associated with the Skagen Painters.
Biography.
Born in Skagen, Brøndum was the son of Erik Andersen Brøndum and Ane Hedvig Møller and the brother of Anna Ancher. Erik Andersen Brøndum, Anna's and Degn's father ran the Brøndums Hotel before Degn Brøndum took over the hotel around 1880. Anna Ancher became one of the Skagen painters. Degn Brøndum was one of
Brøndum (1820–90). After her husband's death in 1890 she ran Brøndum's Hotel, with her son Degn Brøndum, until 70 years old. The portrait is from the blue room at the hotel where she lived when she was portrayed, and here she read books and letters. Several of Anna Ancher's portraits of Ane Brøndum have the blue room as a setting.
Provenance.
Danish private ownership.
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Sold by Bukowski, Copenhagen, April 22, 1991, catalog number third
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