Harald Slott-Møller (Danish painter and ceramist) 1864 - 1937
Midsummer's Eve, s.d.
oil on canvas
67 x 85 cm.
signed Harald Slott-Møller
private collection
Georg Harald Slott-Møller was married to the painter Agnes Slott-Møller. He was the son of merchant Carl Emil Møller and Anna Maria born Møller. After visiting the Academy prep school he painted 3 years under PS Krøyer, debuted in 1886 at the spring exhibition and attracted in 1888 the attention by its large, vivid characterization photo Poor people.
Harald Slott-Møller is known for his portraits of prominent Southern Jutland and South Schleswig, which is suspended in Flensburg in Flensburg . The portraits appear each with its own individual background, a landscape or some characteristic buildings. Slott-Møller was associated with faience factory Aluminia 1902-1906, but left the position because he had problems with his colleague Christian Joachim.
In 1919 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog. He is buried at Holmen's Cemetery.
He is portrayed in a double portrait (Directions or Comrades, 1886) of Harold and Agnes Slott-Møller, painted by both. His self-portrait appears also in the painting Migratory birds (1909, study drawing this same year). Another self-portrait is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence 1924 (painted preliminary study of the same year). Drawing by Agnes Slott-Møller 1887 and of Karl Jensen (Frederiksborg Museum) and of Rasmus Christiansen , Viggo Afzelius and Herluf Jensenius.
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