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Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen (27 April 1855 – 11 October 1912) was a Norwegian
Artworks by Nils Hansteen
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1855 births 1912 deaths Norwegian marine artists 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters People from Mo i Rana 19th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub
Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen (27 April 1855 – 11 October 1912) was a Norwegian painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
. He was known principally for his landscape painting as well as his marine art
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main Sea in culture, inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the seaâ ...
, often featuring ships in a stormy seas.
Life and work
Nils Hansteen 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 includingTrondheim Kunstmuseum
The Trondheim Art Museum ( no, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, previously ''Trøndelag Kunstgalleri'') is an art museum located in Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The museum shows temporary exhibitions of international and regional art in dia ...
, as well as the Kunstforening in Drammen and the Kunstmuseene in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
. Two of his paintings, including ''Snøtykke'' (1890), are owned by the National Gallery of Norway
The National Gallery ( no, Nasjonalgalleriet) is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
, the admission cost is 100 Norwegian kroner.
History
It was establishe ...
.
Nils Hansteen was born in Mo i Rana, in the county of Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...
, Norway. He first attended a technical college in Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
to study mechanical engineering
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. He subsequently attended the Bergslien School of Art where he studied under Knud Bergslien
Knud Larsen Bergslien (15 May 1827 – 27 November 1908) was a Norwegian painter, art teacher and master artist. In his art, he frequently portrayed the lives of the Norwegian people, their history and heroes of the past. Bergslien is most associ ...
and Morten Müller
Morten Müller (13 February 1828 – 10 February 1911) was a Norway, Norwegian Landscape painting, landscape painter.
Biography
Morten Müller was born by the Oslofjord, Christianiafjord at Holmestrand, in Vestfold County, Norway. Morten Müll ...
during 1873 and with Peder Cappelen Thurmann
Peder Cappelen Thurmann (18 March 1839, Halden
Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north a ...
at the Royal Drawing and Art School. He later studied under Hans Gude in Karlsruhe
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(1876 to 1877) where Gude led him into marine painting and greatly influenced his artistic development. He later lived in Munich
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(1877–1880) and Italy
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(1880–1881). In 1881, he came back to Norway, and was resident in Christiania (now Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
) until his death, except the period 1887 to 1892 when he stayed in Copenhagen
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. Was a member for Norway of the exposition committee at Nordic Exhibition of 1888.Svanholm, Lise: ''Skagenleksikon: malerne, modellerne, værkerne og stederne''. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 2003
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Artworks by Nils Hansteen
Nils Hansteen - Artworks
1855 births 1912 deaths Norwegian marine artists 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters People from Mo i Rana 19th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub