Sigurd Swane

Sigurd Swane (16 June 1879 – 9 April 1973) was a Danish Post-Impressionist painter and poet; known primarily for his landscapes.

His use of pointillistic spots was soon replaced by more solid brushstrokes, with careful separation of colour, making him one of Denmark's foremost colourists.

[1] He also did portraits, still lifes and some religious scenes, including many painted versions of "The Dream of Jacob".

[2] After 1934, he fulfilled his childhood dream of living in the country on a farm in Odsherred in the north-west of Zealand, where he completed a series of light-filled landscape paintings.

Sigurd Swane died, aged 93, at his farmhouse, named Malergården, in the hamlet of Plejerup, not far from Grevinge in Zealand.