Valdemar Irminger

My Wife at Work,1909. A portrait of Ingeborg Plockross Irminger, the wife of Valdemar Irminger. Ribe Kunstmuseum. Valdemar Heinrich Nicolas Irminger (29 December 1850 – 10 February 1938) was a Danish painter.

Biography

Born in Copenhagen, Irminger attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1867 and 1873. He went to Italy on a scholarship from 1884 to 1887. In 1888, he won the Academy's medal for Motiv fra Børnehospitalet ved Refsnæs (View from the Children's Hospital at Refsnæs) and the following year for Fra et Børnehospital (From a Children's Hospital). His brightly-coloured open-air paintings at Refsnæs are considered to be among his finest works featuring children painted with revealing sensitivity. In 1908, he married the painter Ingeborg Plockross.

Awards In 1889, Irminger was awarded the Eckersberg Medal. In 1915, he was decorated with the Order of the Dannebrog and in 1925 with the Cross of Honour.