Nils Gude (4 April 1859 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

– 24 December 1908 in Christiania) was a Norwegian portrait painter.

Biography

Nils Gude was the son of the prominent painter

Hans Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Roma ...

(1825–1903) and the brother of diplomat Ove Gude (1853–1910). He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany where his father was teaching at the

Düsseldorf school of painting The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Academy (now the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State ...

. He studied under his father, before entering the

Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe () is an art school located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as ...

in 1877 to study under

Eduard Hildebrandt Eduard Hildebrandt (9 September 1818 in Danzig25 October 1868 in Berlin) was a German landscape painter. Biography He served as apprentice to his father, a house-painter at Danzig. He was not twenty when he moved to Berlin, where he was taken in ...

and

Karl Gussow Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor. Life and work His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he wa ...

. He continued his studies in Berlin 1881–82, and later relocated to Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. Gude is known for several portraits of prominent figures of the day, including portraits of his own father and of Henrik Ibsen.''

Salmonsens konversationsleksikon ''Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon'' is a Danish encyclopedia that has been published in several editions. The first edition, ''Salmonsens Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon'' was published in nineteen volumes 1893–1911 by Brødrene Sa ...

, Anden Udgave'', bind X,
Gude, Nils
�. København, J. Schultz, 1920.

References

1859 births 1908 deaths Norwegian expatriates in Germany 19th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 19th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub