The retracing art trail
the retracing art trail puts a new artistic spin on nature. You are guided to see the motifs for twelve famous paintings, with the opportunity to engage in dialogue with art and the past at the interface of the works and nature. You stand on the exact spot where the paintings took shape.
The ‘retracing art’ trail is based on a 6-km walk that takes in some of the most beautiful spots on Fyns Hoved. However, you can otherwise just make your way to the individual spots on the trail – but be sure to wear sturdy footwear. On the western side of Fyns Hoved itself, especially, the terrain is hilly and unsuitable for bicycles or prams; however, there is a wider, smoother path through the land on the eastern side of Fyns Hoved.
Fritz Syberg: The Summer Cabins
When thinking of a Danish beach, most people probably imagine a sandy beach with its blue waters and perhaps some pebbles along the shore, but beaches can also be filled with exciting and beautiful gr...
Lars Swane: View of Mejlø
From the bay where Fritz Syberg’s children bathed over 100 years ago, Mejlø looks like a small round peak in the water. However, this is only when you see the island from the right angle, against its ...
Fritz Syberg: Anchor beams in Korshavn
In the two paintings, we see Mejlø from the north tip of the peninsula Korsøre. From this angle, the otherwise long island appears round and small. Syberg was fascinated by this motif in which Mejlø l...
Jens Birkholm: Strandparti, Fyns Hoved
Jens Birkholm was a close friend of the Syberg family and one of the artists who visited them in Funen’s Head. He also accompanied Anna and Fritz on extended art stays to Italy in 1905. Birkholm was f...
Fritz Syberg: The artist’s children on the beach
Here, Fritz Syberg has painted his children playing along the beach on a warm sunny day, the water Is calm, the sky is blue with soft clouds. The image evokes peace and calm, summer heat, man and natu...
Theodor Philipsen: Landscape. The north coast of Funen
Theodor Philipsen was, as far as we know, the first artist to discover Funen’s Head, and he became a kind of mentor and source of inspiration for the group of “Fynbomalere” (paintors of Funen) who lat...
Fritz Syberg: Flower meadow. Funen’s Head
It is a beautiful summer day on the countryside of Denmark, more specifically on Funen’s Head. The wild flowers of the meadow are the central motif with the soft hills on the background.
The summer l...
Gerda Andrea Heltoft: The Common Beach – towards Funen’s Head
Artist Gerda Andrea Heltoft was both geographic and artistically closely related to Funen’s Head. In 1962, she moved with her husband to a closed school in Nordskov – the northernmost city on Hindshol...
Jeppe Larsen: Parti fra Fyns Hoved
As the grandson of Johannes Larsen, the artist Jeppe Larsen grew up in Kerteminde’s art environment. He inherited his grandfather’s eyes and love for nature in Kerteminde and was deeply committed to p...
Fritz Syberg: Fiskere der bøder garn
Fritz Syberg (1862-1939): Fiskere der bøder garn. Fynshoved. 1907.
På landtangen ved Korsøre, lidt længere ude mod spidsen, har Fritz Syberg også malet to fiskere, som arbejder med fiskegarn.
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Fritz Syberg: Upset Sea at Funen’s Head
Syberg first went to Funen’s Head in December 1901 with his artist colleague and close friend Johannes Larsen. There, he was greatly enamored by the peculiarly violent nature, and wrote home to his wi...