Holger Drachmann

Holger Drachmann was born in Copenhagen in 1846, the son of a naval doctor. He trained as a marine painter and travelled to Scotland, Spain and Sicily, then to London, where he mixed with revolutionaries. At first counted among the radicals who followed Georg Brandes, he broke violently with them in 1883 and moved closer to the conservatives. He frequented Skagen and its painters, married three times, and a passion for a variety-stage performer inspired novels and poems. He died in Hornbæk in 1908.

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• PoetryDigteHolger Drachmann · 1872not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain