In the history of art, Christian Krohg is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Christian Krohg as Norwegian painter and writer (1852–1925).
Christian Krohg was born at Vestre Aker in 1852. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at University of Oslo and Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, professor and writer.
His recorded movement is realism.
Among his best-known works are Man overboard, The Struggle for Existence. Study and Albertine i politilægens venteværelse. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav.
That the work was made in Norway shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Christian Krohg died in 1925, aged 73. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav
- Notable work: Man overboard
- Notable work: The Struggle for Existence. Study
- Notable work: Albertine i politilægens venteværelse
- Movement: realism
