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1846 Norway - 1903 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Landscape, marine, and mountain scene luminist painting.
Frithjof Smith-Hald. 1846-1903. Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter. From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan... Read full biography
Frithjof Smith-Hald. 1846-1903. Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter. From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859). From 1871 to 1873 he moved... Read full biography
Frithjof Smith-Hald. 1846-1903. Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter. From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859). From 1871 to 1873 he moved to Karlsruhe in Germany, and taught with Hans Gude (1825-1903) who had gone there in 1864. From 1873 to 1878 Smith-Hald was at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf where Gude had been from 1841. But he... Read full biography
Frithjof Smith-Hald. 1846-1903. Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter. From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859). From 1871 to 1873 he moved to Karlsruhe in Germany, and taught with Hans Gude (1825-1903) who had gone there in 1864. From 1873 to 1878 Smith-Hald was at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf where Gude had been from 1841. But he preferred Paris and moved there in 1878, and became Norway's most famous painter in Europe at the time. He received various foreign medals. In the 1890s the family moved to Bergen, but moved abroad again in 1895, and lived partly in Belgian Antwerp from... Read full biography
Frithjof Smith-Hald. 1846-1903. Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter. From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859). From 1871 to 1873 he moved to Karlsruhe in Germany, and taught with Hans Gude (1825-1903) who had gone there in 1864. From 1873 to 1878 Smith-Hald was at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf where Gude had been from 1841. But he preferred Paris and moved there in 1878, and became Norway's most famous painter in Europe at the time. He received various foreign medals. In the 1890s the family moved to Bergen, but moved abroad again in 1895, and lived partly in Belgian Antwerp from 1898. Frithjof traveled to Minnesota in the fall of 1902 with his exhibition, and died... Read full biography
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Frithjof Smith-Hald
1846-1903
Smith-Hald was a Norwegian landscape painter.
From 1865 to 1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859).
From 1871 to 1873 he moved to Karlsruhe in Germany, and taught with Hans Gude (1825-1903) who had gone there in 1864.
From 1873 to 1878 Smith-Hald was at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf where Gude had been from 1841. But he preferred Paris and moved there in 1878, and became Norway's most famous painter in Europe at the time.
He received various foreign medals. In the 1890s the family moved to Bergen, but moved ...But wait, there's more...
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