Ludvig Munthe was a Norwegian-born German

Germany

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 landscape painter.

Biography

He was born at Aaröen, near Sogndal

Sogndal

Sogndal is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Sogndalsfjøra is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other main villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, and Fjærland...

. He was first instructed by Schiertz, a German painter and architect at Bergen, and then became a pupil of Albert Flamm

Albert Flamm

Albert Flamm was a German landscape painter, born at Cologne. He was a pupil of Andreas Achenbach at Düsseldorf, where he settled after traveling in Italy. His pictures, the subjects of which were chosen almost exclusively from Italian scenery, command attention by their truthfulness to nature,...

 at Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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, which he subsequently selected for his permanent residence.

Works

A thoroughly realistic treatment characterizes his paintings, of which autunm and winter scenes in stormy or gloomy weather, forest and coast views form the prevailing subjects, and which may be judged by such specimens as:

• “Pine Forest in Winter” (1870), Hamburg Gallery
• “Wood Interior in Winter, with Stags” (1878), National Gallery, Christiania, which was awarded the gold medal in Paris
• “Birch Wood in Autumn” (1886)
• “Autumn in Holland” (1895), both in National Gallery, Berlin