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Magazine 43
Merry Christmas (1891) by one of Denmark's most prominent painters of the 1890s, Viggo Johansen. He went to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen at the beginning of the 1870s, but never actually graduated and in 1875 Johansen finally gave up the idea of achieving his certificate and chose to spend the summer at the most northern point of Jutland where he became an active member of the group of Skagen Painters who met every summer in the north of Jutland. Johansen made his artistic breakthrough in 1877 when he sold one of his paintings to tobacco manufacturer, Heinrich Hirschsprung in Copenhagen. Around the early 1900s, when he was already a respected and well-renowned artist he worked as a professor at the very same institution that he never graduated from – the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.