Christian Krohg (Norwegian painter) 1852 - 1925
Portrait of the Swedish Painter Karl Nordström, 1882
oil on canvas
61 x 46.5 cm.
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Karl Fredrik Nordström (11 July 1855, in Stenkyrka, Västra Götaland – 16 August 1923, in Drottningholm), was a Swedish painter and one of the leading members of Konstnärsförbundet, which he chaired from 1896 until its dissolution in 1920.
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Christian Krohg, was a Norwegian naturalist painter, author and journalist.
Krohg was educated in Germany at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe, and later worked in Paris from 1881 to 1882. Inspired by the thoughts of the realists he chose motives primarily from everyday life – often its darker or socially inferior sides. Particularly well known are his pictures of prostitutes (and his novel Albertine from 1886 is about this theme). The book caused a scandal when first published, and was confiscated by the police. Krogh’s powerful and straightforward style made him one of the leading figures in the transition from romanticism to naturalism, characteristic of Norwegian art in this period. Through his periodic residence at Skagen, where he arrived for the first time in 1879. Later he became a professor director at Statens Kunstakademi (The Norwegian Academy of Arts) 1909-1925.
(Krohg was a journalist in the Oslo newspaper Verdens Gang 1890-1910, where he wrote remarkable portrait interviews. He was married to painter and princess Oda Krohg, and the father of painter Per Krohg (1889-1965)).
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