Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen - Artist Info

About Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen

  • Biography

    Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen (27 April 1855 – 11 October 1912) was a Norwegian painter. He was known principally for his landscape painting as well as his marine art, often featuring ships in a stormy seas.

    He painted in a naturalistic style, with motifs from marine and forest environments. His art is on exhibit at a number of public art museum throughout Norway including Trondheim Kunstmuseum, as well as the Kunstforening in Drammen and the Kunstmuseene in Bergen. Two of his paintings, including Snøtykke (1890), are owned by the National Gallery of Norway.

    Nils Hansteen was born in Mo i Rana, in the county of Nordland, Norway. He first attended a technical college in Trondheim to study mechanical engineering. He subsequently a...

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