1. Eilif Peterssen is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits.
19 Facts About Eilif Peterssen
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Eilif Peterssen gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg.
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Eilif Peterssen became known for his landscape paintings, and became part of the artist circle known as the Skagen Painters.
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Eilif Peterssen became known for his design in 1905 of Norway's national coat of arms with the Norwegian lion, which was used by the government and the royal house.
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Eilif Peterssen was the son of Jon Peterssen and Anne Marie Andersen.
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Eilif Peterssen grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.
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Eilif Peterssen entered the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in 1869.
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Eilif Peterssen trained with Knud Bergslien and Morten Muller in the autumn of 1870.
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In Munich Eilif Peterssen met other famous artists such as Arnold Bocklin and Karl von Piloty.
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In 1903, Eilif Peterssen again visited Italy and in Rapallo near Genova, he painted the impressionist motif Winter in the South.
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Eilif Peterssen made several visits to Skogstad in Valdres, where he was particularly inspired by the great mountain landscape.
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Eilif Peterssen made his breakthrough as a painter in Munich with the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe which was acquired by the Verbindung fur historische Kunst in Stuttgart.
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Eilif Peterssen painted Princess Anna Elisabeth Reuss at Schloss Schleiz in Gera during 1878.
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Eilif Peterssen was influenced by the brownish palette of the Munich School painters.
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However Eilif Peterssen was to adopt the increasingly popular En plein air style when he traveled to Italy in 1879.
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At Skagen, Eilif Peterssen painted some of his first evocative landscapes, such as Summer Evening at Skagen.
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Eilif Peterssen continued to paint portraits of famous Norwegians, among them authors Alexander Kielland, Arne Garborg and Henrik Ibsen, whom he had painted as early as 1875.
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Eilif Peterssen made a portrait of the well-known composer Edvard Grieg in 1893.
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Eilif Peterssen was first married in 1879 to Inger Birgitte Cecilie Nicoline Bache Ravn, a daughter of the court marshal, Major General Johan Georg Boll Gram.