Frithjof Smith-Hald

Frithjof Smith-Hald (born September 13, 1846 in Kristiansand , † March 11, 1903 in Chicago ) was a Norwegian landscape painter.

Life

Smith-Hald: Solnedgang på havna , Museo Soumaya (Mexico)

Smith-Hald was the son of Christian Fredrik Smith and his wife Karen Christine (nee Hald). He was first a student of Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in Kristiania , then from 1871 with Hans Gude and Wilhelm Riefstahl at the Karlsruhe Academy , from which he moved to Düsseldorf and Paris for further training . From 1873 to 1878 he lived in Düsseldorf, the center of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , as such the center of a Scandinavian painters 'colony. There he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten from 1876 to 1878 . He lived and worked as a landscape painter in Bergen (Norway) . Many of the pictures deal with fishing and shipping in Norway.

He died of pneumonia on an exhibition trip to the United States .

He was married to Ida Østrup Dahl (1854–1944) since 1876. The genre painter Björn Smith-Hald (1883–1964) was his son.

Awards

• Ordre des Palmes Académiques
• Saint Olav Order
• Legion of Honor
• Order of Charles III.

literature

• Frederick W. Morton: Frithjof Smith-Hald, Norwegian landscape painter. In: Brush & Pencil. Volume 10, No. 3, June 1902 JSTOR 25505758 ( archive.org ).
• CW Schnitler: Smith-Hald, Frithjof . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Schinopsis spectrum . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 805 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Smith-Hald, Frithjof . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 178-179 .

Web links

Commons : Frithjof Smith-Hald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Leif Østby: Frithjof Smith-Hald In: Norsk kunstnerleksikon. nkl.snl.no (as of February 20, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440.
2. ↑ Great loss to art in the death of Frithjof Smith-Hald last week in Chicago In: The Minneapolis journal. March 13, 1903 ( chroniclingamerica.loc.gov ).
3. ^ Leif Østby: Frithjof Smith-Hald In: Norsk kunstnerleksikon. nkl.snl.no (as of February 20, 2017).
4. ^ Smith-Hald, Frithjof . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 178 .