Nils Gude

Nils Gude (born April 4, 1859 in Düsseldorf , † December 24, 1908 in Christiania , Norway ) was a Norwegian portrait painter .

Life

Portrait of the father Hans Fredrik Gude , 1893, Oslo Museum

Gude, one of eight children of the landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude and his wife Betzy Charlotte Juliane Anker (1830–1912), a granddaughter of the Norwegian politician Carsten Anker . At first he was his father's student. From 1874 he attended the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe , where his father taught from 1864 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1880 as a professor of landscape painting. At the Karlsruhe Art School, Nils Gude was a student of Karl Gussow , with whom he continued to study at the Berlin Art Academy from 1880 to 1882 when his father had also moved there. In Berlin Gude worked as a portrait painter until 1896. He then lived in Christiania.

Gude created portraits of well-known contemporaries, including portraits of his father (1893), the playwright Henrik Ibsen (1891) and the Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1884). He received an honorable mention at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 .

literature

Carl Wille Schnitler : Gude, Nils . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 190 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Nils Gude . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 10 : Gossler-Harris . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 533 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Nils Gude - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nils Gude , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

↑ Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Hereditary Princess Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen (1860-1919) , website in the portal royalcollection.org.uk ( Royal Collection )

personal data
SURNAME	Gude, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1908
Place of death	Christiania , Norway

[1] Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Hereditary Princess Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen (1860-1919) , website in the portal royalcollection.org.uk ( Royal Collection )