1. Ludvig Karsten was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and contemporary French painting.
17 Facts About Ludvig Karsten
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Ludvig Karsten first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901, and had his first separate exhibition in 1904.
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Ludvig Karsten is represented at museums in many Scandinavian cities, including several paintings at the National Gallery of Norway.
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Ludvig Karsten was born in Christiana as the son of builder Hans Heinrich Ludvig Karsten and Ida Susanne Pfutzenreuter.
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Ludvig Karsten was a brother of designer Marie Karsten and architect Heinrich Joachim Sebastian Karsten.
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Ludvig Karsten's daughter Alise was born in 1909 and raised in fosterage, until she later moved to Copenhagen to join her father and stepmother.
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In 1913 Ludvig Karsten married the Danish sculptor Michaela Frederikke Haslund.
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Ludvig Karsten died in Paris in 1926, after having fallen down a steep staircase.
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Ludvig Karsten grew up in a wealthy home in Christiania.
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Ludvig Karsten left Spain in 1898, and was enrolled in the Norwegian Armed Forces at Gardermoen for some months.
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Ludvig Karsten then travelled to Munich, where he painted En mann og en kvinne, called Adam and Eve, which has later been located at the Stenersen Museum.
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Ludvig Karsten visited Paris in autumn 1900, where he trained on models.
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Ludvig Karsten visited the museum Louvre, where he paraphrased Riberas painting of the burial of Christ.
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From 1910 Ludvig Karsten lived mostly in Copenhagen, where he married in 1913.
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Ludvig Karsten is represented at the Bergen Museum, at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, and at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo.
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Ludvig Karsten was well known for his paraphrases of works by elder painters, including 16th-century artist Jacopo Bassano and 17th-century artists Jusepe de Ribera and Rembrandt.
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Ludvig Karsten's last painting was a portrait of his daughter Alise, when she visited him in Paris in 1926.