About Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825 – August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting and is best known for landscapes of Norway’s mountains, fjords, and coast. Gude’s work developed gradually, moving from idealized inland landscapes to seascapes and coastal scenes from the 1860s onward. After early collaborations with Adolph Tidemand due to difficulties with figure painting, he later incorporated figures independently. He worked primarily in oil but increasingly emphasized en plein air practice and, later in life, watercolor and gouache. In parallel with his artistic career, Gude exerted major influence as a teacher, serving as a professor in Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, and Berlin and mentoring generations of Norwegian artists. He received numerous honors, including the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav. Gude, along with most of the class of twelve, received a grade of "good" his first semester and was described as "talented". The landscape painting class at the academy was new at the time, having been founded in 1839 as a counterpart to the more long standing figure painting class. In Düsseldorf Gude met Carl Friedrich Lessing who, while initially aloof, became Gude's friend and colleague.
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