Christian Krohg

Works by this Artist

Albertine in the Police Doctor’s Waiting Room
Christian Krohg, 1885-87

Background

son of lawyer/politician Georg Anton Krohg

Studies

at Johan Fredrik Eckersberg’s art school (1869-70, Christiania*); with Julius Middelthun at Royal School of Drawing (1870-71, Christiania); with Hans Gude and Karl Gussow at Karlsruhe Art School; with Karl Gussow at Berlin Art Academy

Career

1875 – meets Max Klinger and Georg Brandes in Berlin

1886 – publishes novel Albertine; founds journal Impressionisten (Christiania)

1890-1900 – regular contributor to Christiania newspaper Verdens gang

1902-9 – professor at Academie Colarossi (Paris)

1909 – Director and professor at the newly founded Kunstakademi in Christiania

1910-16 – regular contributor to newspaper Tidens tegn

*Oslo was called Christiania (Kristiania) from the 17th century until 1925

Travel

Berlin (1875-79); Skagen (1879); Paris (1881; 1902-09)

Important Artworks

The Net-mender, 1879 (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo)

Sick Girl, 1881 (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo)

Readings

Varnedoe, Kirk. Northern Light: Nordic Art at the Turn of the Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988

Varnedoe, Kirk. “Christian Krohg and Edvard Munch,” Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 8 (1979): 88-95

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