Ludvig Skramstad

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Ludvig Skramstad about 1910
Høybåt på fjorden , 1878

Ludvig Skramstad (born December 30, 1855 in Hamar , † December 26, 1912 in Munich ) was a Norwegian landscape painter in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School .

Career

Skramstad was one of eleven children of the painter and glazier Andreas Skramstad (1829-1894) and his wife Karen Larsdatter (1832-1906). In 1870, at the age of 15, he went to the Royal Drawing School in Christiania . From 1871 to 1874 he attended the art school of Knud Bergslien and Morten Müller . The latter had a major impact on Skramstad's early development. Subsequently, from 1874 to 1875, Skramstad became a private student of Sophus Jacobsen in Düsseldorf , in whose milieu Bergslien and Müller had received their artistic stamping. During this time Ludvig Munthe also lived in Düsseldorf, who was visited there by Gerhard Munthe . The majority of aspiring Norwegian painters preferred to study with Hans Fredrik Gude , who had taught at the Karlsruhe Art Academy since 1864 . After the academic year on the Rhine, he returned to Norway. Further study trips took him to Gudbrandsdalen (1874 and 1875), to Sogn (1876), to Hardanger (1876) and Hallingdal (1877). In 1878 an artist foundation ( Schäffers legat ) helped him to travel to London and Paris . Skramstad had his first art exhibition in 1875 at Christiania Kunstforening , where he was able to sell a mountain painting from Gudbrandsdalen. From 1875 to 1891 Skramstad was able to sell a total of ten paintings there. In 1884 he married in Christiania Aurora Marie Adelheid Guidotti (1855-1888), the daughter of the plaster maker Peter Natale Guidotti and his wife Karen Sophie Thønnesen. After Aurora died, he married her sister Vincentia Sophie Emma (1852-1944) in 1889. A state travel grant enabled him to stay in Munich from 1885 to 1886 . Back from Munich, he had a house built in Drøbak . Lived there until 1902 and took an active part in local life. In 1902 he moved to Munich, where he died in 1912.

Skramstad remained artistically committed to the landscape painting of the Düsseldorf School and did not follow the path of Norwegian painting into naturalism , not even when in the 1880s - after his return from Munich - criticism of his "routine models" was voiced, for example by Lorentz Dietrichson , Christian Krohg and Jens Thiis, then director of the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustriemuseum in Trondheim, who said that Skramstad had wasted his rich talents. The criticism did not diminish the popularity of his pictures in Norway's public, but it did lead to Skramstad going to Munich in 1902 to paint for the German art trade.

Web links

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

literature

  • Christian Krohg : “Dilettantudstillingen” . In: Dagbl. June 11, 1887
  • Jens Thiis: Norske Malere og Billedhuggere . Bergen 1904, p. 265
  • Obituary. In: Aftenp. og Mgbl. December 28, 1912
  • L. Østby: Fra naturalisme til nyromantikk . 1934, p. 26
  • S. Willoch: Kunstforeningen i Oslo 1836–1936 . 1936, pp. 104, 134, 141, 146 and 212
  • V. Dybwad: Venner and kjenninger from 80-årene . 1941
  • A. Coldevin: Norske storgårder . Vol. 2, 1950, pp. 181-182
  • Hedmark slektshistorielags tidsskrift, Vol. 3, H. 5, Hamar 1951
  • H. Alsvik: Biography in: NBL1, Vol. 13, 1958
  • KK: “Ludvig Skramstad - Hamarmaleren som ikke ville til Nasjonalgalleriet” . In: Hamar Arbeiderblad June 23, 1962
  • T. Skedsmo: Biography in: NKL, Vol. 3, 1886
  • U. Hamran: Skramstad, Ludvig . In: Fra Aust-Agder-Museet, November 1886
  • Lorentz Dietrichson : Norges art history i det nittende århundre . 1991 (original approx. 1892), pp. 157, 170

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Aubert : The Norwegian painting in the XIX. Century 1814 to 1900 . Verlag Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Skramstad, Ludvig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian landscape painter in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamar
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1912
Place of death Munich