![The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) 1879 Christian Krohg Krohg painted this working couple at Skagen, a village on the coast of Jutland in Denmark that hosted an influential artists' colony, in the summer of 1879. His models were the fisherman Niels Christian ... The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) 1879 Christian Krohg Krohg painted this working couple at Skagen, a village on the coast of Jutland in Denmark that hosted an influential artists' colony, in the summer of 1879. His models were the fisherman Niels Christian ...](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2hh2xy0/the-net-mender-garnbinderen-1879-christian-krohg-krohg-painted-this-working-couple-at-skagen-a-village-on-the-coast-of-jutland-in-denmark-that-hosted-an-influential-artists-colony-in-the-summer-of-1879-his-models-were-the-fisherman-niels-christian-gaihede-18161890-and-his-wife-ane-gaihede-18121904-renouncing-the-sentimentality-associated-with-peasant-subjects-then-current-in-nordic-art-krohg-gave-vent-to-an-insistent-objectivity-that-struck-contemporaries-as-idiosyncratic-to-a-fault-when-this-work-was-exhibited-in-oslo-soon-after-it-was-completed-this-criticism-prompted-krohg-t-2hh2xy0.jpg)
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) 1879 Christian Krohg Krohg painted this working couple at Skagen, a village on the coast of Jutland in Denmark that hosted an influential artists' colony, in the summer of 1879. His models were the fisherman Niels Christian ...
![File:Christian Krohg - Niels Gaihede netting - Garnbinderen, Niels og Ane Gaihede, Skagen - Nasjonalmuseet - NG.M.00722.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Christian Krohg - Niels Gaihede netting - Garnbinderen, Niels og Ane Gaihede, Skagen - Nasjonalmuseet - NG.M.00722.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Christian_Krohg_-_Niels_Gaihede_netting_-_Garnbinderen%2C_Niels_og_Ane_Gaihede%2C_Skagen_-_Nasjonalmuseet_-_NG.M.00722.jpg)