Ludvik Peter Karsten

Ludvik Peter Karsten (also: Ludvik Karsten) (born May 8, 1876 in Kristiania , † October 19, 1926 in Paris ) was a Norwegian painter .

life and work

Karsten was the youngest son of the German builder Hans Heinrich Karsten (1837–1909), who had settled in Kristiania in 1864, and his wife Ida Susanne (née Pfützenreuter, 1846–90). His sister Marie (1872–1953) trained as a furniture and interior designer, his sister Fredrikke studied music in Dresden, the youngest sister Kristine became a textile artist and his brother Heinrich became an architect.

After passing the Abitur, Karsten traveled to Rome and Munich to study . From autumn 1896 to 1898 he lived in Madrid . In Madrid he mainly studied the œuvre of Velázquez . In the years 1899/1900 Karsten studied at the Academy in Munich. From 1900 he lived in Paris for several years . In Paris he worked for Eugène Carrière . In 1905 Karsten stayed in Norway. In 1907 he lived in Berlin . He repeatedly had scholarships available for stays abroad. In the summer he mostly stayed in Åsgårdstrand - often with Edvard Munch . After 1910 Karsten worked mostly in Copenhagen .

Karsten married the sculptor Michaela Frederikke ("Miss") Haslund (1886–1943), a daughter of the painter and Carl Otto Bentzon Haslund (1842–1917) and his wife Frederikke (née Aagaard, 1857–1923) in Copenhagen in 1913. The marriage was dissolved in 1917.

Within Norwegian painting, Karsten gave Impressionist painting the highest expressiveness.

Museums, exhibitions and galleries (selection)

• Consumers
• Golgotha
• Entombment (1904)
• Flight into Egypt (ca.1920)

literature

• Ivan Munk Olsen: Karsten, Ludvig Peter. In: Dansk biogr. Haandleksikon. Volume 2: Th. Hansen-Nordby. Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1921, pp. 308-309 (Danish, rosekamp.dk and rosekamp.dk ).
• CW Schnittler: Karsten, Ludvig . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 13 : Jernbaneret – Kirkeskat . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1922, p. 634-635 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Karsten, Ludvik Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 574 .
• Georg Nordensvan : Karsten, Ludvik . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 36 : Supplement: Globe – Kövess . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1924, Sp. 954 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• General artist lexicon . Volume 79: Jurgens – Kelder. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 369 f.
• Art and culture. Volume I, Bergen 1911, pp. 144, 219 and 224; Volume II, 1912, p. 227 ff .; Volume XI, 1913, p. 202.
• A. Brunsius: Färg och form. Stockholm 1913, p. 166, 181 f.
• A. Dresdner: Swedish and Norwegian art etc. Breslau 1924, p. 93.
• The Cicerone. Volume X, 1918, p. 162; Volume XVI 1924, p. 295.
• Dagbladet. (Oslo) March 23, 1915.
• Aftenposten. (Oslo) from November 20, 1923.
• Politics. dated December 5, 1913; April 13, 1921; October 1, 1921 and October 9, 1921.
• Kobenhavn. May 10, 1922.
• Tidskr. f. Konstvetenskap. V, 1921, p. 36.
• Berl. Tid. April 13, 1921.
• Social democrats. January 3, 1919; April 12, 1921; October 23, 1922.
• Ludvig Karsten. In: Store norske leksikon . (Norwegian, snl.no ).
• H. Grevenor: Ludvig Karsten. In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . Volume 7, Oslo, 1936, pp. 234-236 (Norwegian, nbl.snl.no ).
• Nils Messel: Ludvig Karsten. In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon . Volume 2, 1983 (Norwegian, nkl.snl.no ).
• Nils Messel: Ludvig Karsten. Messel, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-7631-027-3 .

Web links

• Ludvig Karsten on nasjonalmuseet.no (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anne-Berit Skaug: Marie Karsten. In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon. ( snl.no ).