Otto Sinding
Otto Ludvig Sinding, (born December 20, 1842 in Kongsberg in Norway , † November 23, 1909 in Munich ) was a Norwegian painter. His brothers were Christian Sinding and Stephan Sinding .
Life
Sinding studied the rights to Christiania (now Oslo ) and was a civil servant for a while before he could devote himself to art with the painters Philip Barlag and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in 1867-69 . His first attempts at landscape painting earned him a scholarship in 1869, with which he went to Karlsruhe to continue his studies with Hans Gude .
In addition to Gude, he enjoyed the instruction of Wilhelm Riefstahl , with whom he began to paint figures. Since 1872 he continued to perfect himself in this at Piloty in Munich. In 1876 he returned to his homeland and painted the altarpiece Christ on the Cross for St. Paul's Church in Christiania (Oslo) and several pictures based on Norwegian folk tales and dramatic coastal landscapes based on suggestions from Knud Baade . In 1880 he took a trip to Italy and then settled in Munich, where he painted a number of lively landscapes and navies.
His wish to travel to the Lofoten, encouraged by Johan Martin Nielssen , was first fulfilled in the winter of 1881/82. In the winter of 1886 he went on a study trip to Lofoten, from which he brought back around 60 oil paintings, in which life in Lofoten is depicted at all times of the year and day by closely observing the light and air phenomena. According to Johan Nielssen, Sinding is considered to be the discoverer of Lofoten in painting. Sinding's pictures made the great natural scenery of Lofoten popular in Norway and Europe.
In 1886 Sinding settled in Berlin. In 1888 he showed 60 Lofoten pictures at the Berlin academy exhibition. On another trip he took his study trip to Bergen , the surroundings of which he depicted in a second series of pictures for spring and summer. He was also in Lofoten several times in the 90s.
From 1891 he lived in Lysaker . In 1894 he turned back to history painting and painted a panorama of the Battle of Nations of 1813 for Leipzig. In 1896 he received a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . From 1903 he lived as a professor at the Art Academy in Munich .
The wife was Anna Christine Nielsen (1855–1914), a foster daughter Gude. He was friends with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson . His son was Sigmund Sinding (1875-1936). The painter Elisabeth Sinding (1846–1930) was his cousin.
literature
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Otto Sinding . 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. 85 .
- Sonja Baranow: Sinding, Otto Ludvig. In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, pp. 163, 165
- Knud Ljøgodt: Otto Sinding and Gunnar Berg. Nordnorsk Art Museum, Tromsø 2002
- Otto Sinding . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 104, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023270-7 , p. 81.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sinding, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinding, Otto Ludvig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kongsberg , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1909 |
| Place of death | Munich |