Ludvig Munthe (painter)

Ludvig Munthe

Düsseldorfer Stadttheater and Alleestraße

Ludvig Munthe (born March 11, 1841 in Årøy near Sogndal , Norway ; † March 30, 1896 in Düsseldorf , Rhine Province ) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Munthe was the third of eight children of the farmer Gerhard Munthe (1791–1878) and Sigrid (née Urnæs, 1811–1904). He was initially a student of Franz Wilhelm Schiertz , but then, at the age of 20, went to Düsseldorf for further training, where he was a private student of Sophus Jacobsen and Albert Flamm . From 1863 until his death in 1896 Munthe was a member of the Düsseldorf artists ' association “ Malkasten ”.

During his time he was the most famous Norwegian painter abroad, alongside Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Hans Gude . His main motifs were melancholy, atmospheric autumn and winter landscapes and beach scenes with fishermen's staffage .

Munthe was also a member of the Academy of Arts in Stockholm and Copenhagen .

On June 1, 1872, Munthe married the Dutch Lene Wilhelmina Vlierboom (born March 6, 1853 in Rotterdam , Netherlands , † February 20, 1901 in The Hague ), the daughter of the shipowner Ary Vlierboom and Eva Schalkwyck. The couple had four children, including the later marine painter Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe (1875–1927) and the portrait and genre painter Christopher Munthe (* 1879).

Orders and decorations

• Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1881)
• Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order (1876)
• Order of the French Legion of Honor (1878)

literature

• Munthe, Ludwig. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 116-118 ( archive.org ).
• Georg Nordensvan : Munthe, 3rd Ludvig . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1361 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Munthe, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 277 .
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 431 ff.
• Vidar Poulsson: Ludvig Munthe. In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . (Norwegian, as of February 13, 2009, nbl.snl.no ).
• Sigurd Willoch: Ludvig Munthe. In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon . (Norwegian, as of July 4, 2013, nkl.snl.no ).
• Ludvig Munthe. In: Store norske leksikon . (Norwegian, as of October 29, 2019, snl.no ).

Web links

Commons : Ludvig Munthe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ludwig Munthe , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )