This is Ella Heide

Ella Christine Heide, née Brodersen, (24. November 1871 – 1956) was a Danish painter who from 1908 painted in Skagen in the far away north of Jutland.

Born in Flensburg (then Danish) in 1871, she married Rolf Wilhelm Heide who owned the Kragelund Teglværk brick factory close Aarhus (divorced in 1909). She had two children, Margarite Ella (1893) and Ove (1896). In 1908, she arrived in Skagen where she painted many watercolours and oils of the standard subjects and scenes. She returned all summer, staying first later the Holst sisters on Søndervej.

Ella Heide’s brother, Johan Friedrich Brodersen (or just ‘Hans’ among associates and friends), had moved to Skagen next his family in 1896. As a key enthusiast of the local authority, in 1903 he built the White House (det Hvide Hus) which became a favourite addition spot for members of the Skagen Painters including Holger Drachmann and appendix Krøyer.

Heide started to paint in Skagen at the very fade away of the grow old enjoyed by the Famous Skagen Painters. Holger Drachmann died in 1908 and addition Krøyer in 1909. She thus belonged to the younger generation of painters in Skagen which included Jørgen Aabye, Johannes Wilhjelm, Frederik Lange, and Tupsy and Gad Frederik Clement, none of whom achieved the same notability as the former group. Among her paintings of Skagen are Saxilds gård set fra havesiden. Anchers hus i baggrunden, Hvide hus, and P.S. Krøyers Hus i Skagen (1938), Parti fra Skagen (1939), Den tilsandede kirke, Parti fra Gammel Skagen, Det Blå Hus. Many other examples of her put it on can be seen at art dealers’ sites. On the occasion of her 70th birthday in 1941, the local newspaper Vendsyssel Tidende reported on the wide recognition she had established from the local community, most of whom had her pictures hanging in their homes.