The Daily Valdemar No. 4: March 16

Valdemar Andersen, "Images from the Summer Season", for the daily Politiken, July 15, 1908.
The print can be seen from the other side of the newspaper. Scan by Simon Bang.

It may seem the last thing we need to see right now, when we are not supposed to gather together in larger numbers, but when Valdemar Andersen drew a high summer's day on the beach in 1908 it would be the cartoon crowning the front page when his beholders were taking up their morning paper the next day. They may not have had the opportunity to go themselves, but by way of the cartoon if would feel as if they had. They would be fully updated on the buzz of the town.

Valdemar composed his daily scenes from Copenhagen from the angle of the beholder entering it themselves taking an wider outlook on the scene while crossing those close up. Such as the joyful child on the sand, the young lady carefully collecting her many skirts to sit down on the sand and then we have the young couple. He is fashion from his cap to his trousers, leaning forward to take in everything she says. She is fidgeting with one arm around her back while leaning towards him. Everything is so new between the two and their story remains private in the midst of a busy crowd.

The beachgoers are at the beach at Charlottenlund with Copenhagen is the horizon. The balloon and its string cutting across to the white paper above the line of horizon is anchoring the composition. The upper half of the paper accentuates just how busy the beach is by being left open.

Valdemar drew his frames by hand, so they are softly modulated. Bicycles are resting at the frame to the right.