Anna Ancher (b. Skagen 1859, d. s.p. 1935)
Meeting across the fence. Signed A. Ancher. Oil on canvas. 43×63 cm.
Anna Ancher was not a Symbolist painter, but she has a certain veneration for and understanding of the Symbolist art, and a few of her works can be successfully interpreted from a Symbolist point of view. This painting is one of them.
In addition to the formal intensity of the interaction between colour, light and shade so characteristic for the paintings of Anna Ancher, this painting have the potential for a more atypical symbolist interpretation of the complicated relationship between man, woman and nature.
As Anna Ancher herself writes in a letter from 1893 to Martha Johansen (in Danish): “well, I am still for nature, aren't you, Martha, it is rather lovely? Then a bit of symbolism in between will do no harm”. (Knud Voss: Breve fra Anna Ancher, Copenhagen 1984, p. 60).
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Paintings & books, 19 September 2017