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1932 Skov
is awarded “Meisterbrief” by the HvO, Munich in March and returns to Copenhagen to start a painting contractor’s shop. His
fiance, Isabella Borre Huus, has started a gymnastic fitness studio in
downtown Copenhagen.
1933 Skov marries Isabella Borre Huus in May
1933. In September Skov sells his painting contractor shop and Isabella’s
gymnastic studio and then travels via Paris to Haut-de Cagnes in Southern France, where they remain seven months. Skov paints a
series of Provencal landscapes.
1934 In May the Skovs travel to Aspremont and
Nice, and then to Spalato in Yugoslavia. They return in June via Vienna to Fyn, Denmark,
where Skov paints during the summer at Vester Skjerning, Svendborg and,
later, at Pjedsted; his landscapes and still-lifes are
realist-expressionist in character and increasingly forceful in execution
[22+ oils and many drawings]. He rents a house for the winter in Roejle
Mose near Strib in October.
1935 Skov’s first son is born in Strib in
February; the family moves to a small farm house at Knebel near Aarhus; Skov paints realist-expressionistic landscapes and still-lifes
[35+ oils].
1936 Moves to Svaneke, Bornholm in May where the second son is born. Skov paints
vigorous, expressionistic landscapes and still-lifes; [37+ oils].
1937 Skov moves family to France in October and visits the World Expo in Paris where he sees Picasso’s “Guernica”. He stays in La-Colle-sur-Loup where he meets
Allan Firpo. His paintings become increasingly abstract in design and
emphasize two-dimensionality and color harmonic schemes, [he paints 40+
oils during the La Colle period].
1938 Skov and family leave La-Colle in April,
he has his first one-man Exhibition at Galerie Baker, Paris during May and June and is selected to exhibit
in May with the “Salon de Collectionneurs”, Nice. He returns to Denmark in June, working in Aarsdale, Bornholm and Christiansoe; his paintings emphasize
flatness of expression, color harmonies and sculptured objects and are
increasingly Cubist influenced, [42+ oils from Aarsdale].
1939 Skov remains in Aarsdale, Bornholm until late spring, then move with the family to
Snekkersten north of Copenhagen; has one-man exhibition in March at Gallery Alfred Andersen, Copenhagen; exhibits paintings in June at Gallery Halvorsen,
Aarhus and in August at Illum, Copenhagen; [21+ oils].
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