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.

Sinding studied law at Christiania (now Oslo) and was already a long time official before he could devote themselves to the art 1867-69 at the painters Philip Barlag and Johan Fredrik Eckerberg. His first attempts at landscape painting earned him a scholarship in 1869, with whom he went to Karlsruhe to continue his studies with Hans Gude.

Besides Gude he enjoyed the instruction Wilhelm Riefenstahl, in which he began to paint figures. Since 1872 he perfected his further herein in Piloty in Munich. In 1876 he returned to his home and there painted the altarpiece Christ on the cross for Paul Church in Christiania (Oslo ) and several pictures by Norwegian folk tales and dramatic coastal landscapes by suggestions from Knud Baade. In 1880 he took a trip to Italy and then settled in Munich, where he painted a series of animated landscapes and marines.

His bestärkter of Johan Martin Nielssen desire to travel to Lofoten was fulfilled for the first time in the winter of 1881 / 82nd In winter 1886, he undertook a study trip to the Lofoten islands, of which he brought about 60 oil paintings in which life is portrayed in Lofoten at all times of year and day in close observation of light and air phenomena. Sinding is considered by Johan Nielssen almost as the discoverer of Lofoten in painting. Sinding's images made ​​the magnificent natural scenery of the Lofoten popular in Norway and in Europe.

1886 could be Sinding settled in Berlin. In 1888 he showed 60 Lofotenbilder at the Berlin Academy exhibition. On another trip, he took his study in Bergen, whose environment he described in a second series of images for spring and summer time. Even in the 90s, he was several times in Lofoten.

Since 1891 he lived in Lysaker. In 1894 he turned again to the history painting, and painted for a panorama of the Battle of Leipzig of 1813. Since 1903 he lived as a professor at the Art Academy in Munich.

Wife was Anna Christine Nielsen (1855-1914), a foster daughter Gude. New friends he was with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. His son was Sigmund Sinding ( 1875-1936 ). The painter Elisabeth Sinding (1846-1930) was his cousin.

Selections

  • Surf on the coast in 1875
  • Autumn Storm on the Norwegian coast
  • Arrival of the Hurtigruten Lofoten 1881
  • Spring day in Lofoten, 1882
  • Winter in Lofoten, 1886 (Bergen Art Museum, Bergen)
  • Summer evening on the Lofoten Islands.
  • Snow landscape at Reine, Lofoten, 1883
  • Snow landscape at Svolvaer, Lofoten, 1883 ( Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger )
  • From Svolvaer, 1882 ( Krigsskolen, Oslo )
  • A funeral in Lofoten, 1885 ( Galleri Lofoten House, Henningsvær )
  • Bathing place on Capri
  • Tarantella
  • Fishing harbor in Lofoten
  • The Port of Bodø
  • Demonstration of a dancing bear in the snow
  • Ploughing farmer
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