Albert Gottschalk - Artist Info

About Albert Gottschalk

  • Biography

    Albert Gottschalk (3 July 1866 – 13 February 1906) was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.

    He was born in Stege on the island of Møn. but later moved to Copenhagen. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1882 to 1883 and under Peder Severin Krøyer at the Artists Studio Schools from hos from 1883 to 1888. He also studied privately with Karl Jensen and Karl Madsen.

    Gottschalk was inspired by the Danish painter P.S. Krøyer as well as French art.

    He was ambitious, technically skilled, and he worked a long time with his motifs in his mind before painting them. He searched for his motifs in Denm...

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