In addition to the family home in Kerteminde, known as “Pilegaarden,” the Syberg family spent their summers from 1902 to 1910 at Fyns Hoved. Here, Anna and Fritz Syberg moved their daily life to the edge of the beach on North Fyn, where they lived with their children in two small, temporary, and primitive wooden shacks erected on the shore. Nature and the landscape nourished their artistic inspiration and were translated into subjects in oil and watercolor. As this particular watercolor depicts, there was a guest cabin and a cabin for the large family, which at that time numbered no fewer than six children. The stays became a sanctuary shaped by a vitalistic view of life: bathing naked in the sea, getting sun-tanned, and cooking over the fire constituted a way of living far removed from the traditional and restrained bourgeois life. Between sand and lush nature with beach flowers, beach grass, sea kale, and light green trees, the family cultivated a simple, natural life, also inviting fellow painters to visit. The Syberg family’s summers were described by Johannes V. Jensen: “… Syberg lived up at Fyns Hoved right on the beach like a Stone Age family, in two portable boxes, no larger than bathhouses, along with a pack of white-headed children, who came out of the water for meals and disappeared into the summer fjord again. Life was amphibious, mingled together with water and sunshine, beach flowers, Mejlø in a mirage, clouds and sea; on the other side the Storebælt with sailors and smoke, a mighty sunlit blueness, upwards into the sky and all around, a fleeting, champagne-foaming sea in which we bathed and were renewed from head to toe, as if in the spring of youth…” (Citation from: Karin Mesil: Bondemaler og Baron. Fritz Sybergs liv og billedverden. Johannes Larsen Museet 1992, pp. 19–20)