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1852 Christiania, Norway - 1928 Lysaker, Norway. Known for: History, religious and portrait painting.
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan... Read full biography
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art... Read full biography
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. Later that year he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was a student of Ludwig des Coudres and Wilhelm Riefstahl at Die . Grossherzoglische Kunstschule . In the fall of 1873 Peterssen... Read full biography
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. Later that year he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was a student of Ludwig des Coudres and Wilhelm Riefstahl at Die . Grossherzoglische Kunstschule . In the fall of 1873 Peterssen travelled to Munich where he got Wilhelm von Diez as a teacher. In Munich Peterssen was partly a pupil of Franz von Lenbach as well and he got to know other famous artists like Arnold Böcklin and Karl von Piloty. Peterssen made his breakthrough as a... Read full biography
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. Later that year he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was a student of Ludwig des Coudres and Wilhelm Riefstahl at Die . Grossherzoglische Kunstschule . In the fall of 1873 Peterssen travelled to Munich where he got Wilhelm von Diez as a teacher. In Munich Peterssen was partly a pupil of Franz von Lenbach as well and he got to know other famous artists like Arnold Böcklin and Karl von Piloty. Peterssen made his breakthrough as a painter in Munich with the history painting Christian II Signs the Death Sentence of Torben Oxe (1876), which w... Read full biography
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Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. Later that year he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was a student of Ludwig des Coudres and Wilhelm Riefstahl at Die
Grossherzoglische Kunstschule . In the fall of 1873 Peterssen travelled to Munich where he got Wilhelm von Diez as a teacher. In Munich Peterssen was partly a pupil of Franz von Lenbach as well and he got to know other famous artists like Arnold Böcklin and Karl von Piloty.
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