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Closed for the Holidays
December 19, 2021 - January 6, 2022
The Wieghorst Museum will be closed though Thursday, January 6, 2022. We will be open on the Friday, January 7th. Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Painting
Viggo Johansen (3 January 1851 – 18 December 1935) was a Danish painter and like Olaf he showed a talent for drawing as a boy. He was one of Denmark’s most prominent painters in the 1890s.
The painting is titled, (in Danish): Glade jul; (in English): Happy or Joyous Christmas (1891), Oil on Canvas 50” x 62.4”; original in the Hirschsprung Collection.
Viggo Johansen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons