Johannes Flintoe
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Denmark
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painter who spend most of his career in Norway
Norway
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, both painting and teaching. He is known for landscapes and scenes from Scandinavia
Scandinavia
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n history.
Biography
Flintoe was born in CopenhagenCopenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
in 1787. He apparenticed as a painter with his foster father Peder Faxøe from 1801 to 1805 and from 1802 to 1805 also attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to become a scenic painter
Scenic painting
Theatrical scenic painting includes wide-ranging disciplines, encompassing virtually the entire scope of painting and craft techniques. An experienced scenic painter will have skills in landscape painting, figurative painting, trompe l'oeil, and faux finishing, be versatile in different media such...
and decorative artist.
In 1811 he traveled to Norway and settled in Christiania
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
where he taught at the School of Drawing (Norwegian Tegneskolen) in Christiania
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
from 1819 to 1851. Flintoe represented the transition in Norwegian art from the early landscape paintings of the romantic era that came to flourish at the end of his career. He was a teacher for several of the leading national romantic artists including Johan Fredrik Eckersberg
Johan Fredrik Eckersberg
Johan Fredrik Eckersberg was a Norwegian painter most noted for his landscapes. Eckersberg was a prominent figure in the transition from Romanticism to Realism in 18th century Norwegian art, both as an artistic painter and a teacher at his own art school in Oslo.-Background:Johan Fredrik...
and Hans Gude
Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters...
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Legacy
Johannes Flintoe later returned to Denmark and died in Copenhagen in Copenhagen on 27 January 1870. Flintoe is remembered for influencing the development of landscape painting in 19th century Norway at a time when interest in national romanticismRomantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs...
was blossoming. He traveled widely in Norway himself, painting numerous landscapes and national costumes, all considered to be of high cultural importance.
Other sources
- Noss, Aagot Johannes Flintoes draktakvarellar (Det Norske Samlaget. 1970) Norwegian