Gudmund Stenersen (18 August 1863 – 17 August 1934) was a

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painter and illustrator.

Biography

He was born in

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as a son of veterinarian

Stener Johannes Stenersen Stener Johannes Stenersen (15 July 1835 – 7 July 1904) was a Norwegian veterinarian. Stenersen was born in Elverum in Hedmark, Norway. He was a son of priest Gabriel Hofgaard Stenersen and Anne Birgitte Irgens. He was a nephew of theologian Ste ...

(1835–1904) and Helga Hermana Heltberg (1842–1921). He was a grandnephew of theologian Stener Johannes Stenersen, Sr. (1789–1835). He took his

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in 1883, and then took education and work as a dentist while painting on his spare time. His first work to be accepted at the Autumn Exhibit was ''I Baadstøe'' in 1885. After working as a dentist in

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from 1886 to 1889, he studied in

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under

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

and

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biogra ...

from 1889 to 1892. Time from 1893 to 1894 was spent in

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. He then moved to Stavanger. There, in January 1897, he married photographer's daughter Karen Wally Jacobsen (1874–1962). In 1898 they moved to Christiania. He became a father-in-law of

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, who married Stenersen's daughter Helga Louise Stenersen in February 1926. He mainly painted in the naturalist style, with portraits of Christiania as well as Odal,

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and

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. He also portrayed many notable people of the day. He was also a notable illustrator, among others in the books ''Vestlandsviser'' (by

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, 1898), ''Fra fjeld og fremmed Land'' (by

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, 1900), ''Smaafæ'' (by

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, 1906 as well as his own release ''Besøg i skogen'' (1905). He made illustrations in ''

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'' in 1917, and also made Christmas magazines. Notable paintings include ''Fra Siena'' (1893) and ''Njosgardene i Valdres'' (1893–1902), which are owned by the

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. Stenersen chaired ''Tegneforbundet'' from 1901 to 1926, and was a freemason. He died in August 1934 in Oslo.

References

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