1. Nikolai Astrup was the great-grandson of Nils Nikolai Astrup, a member of the Norwegian Parliament.
12 Facts About Nikolai Astrup
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Nikolai Astrup's father wanted him to become a priest and sent him to Trondheim Cathedral School from 1895 to 1897.
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However, Nikolai Astrup failed his Latin exams as he was more interested in drawing and painting.
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In 1899, Nikolai Astrup left for Kristiania where he matriculated as student at the Royal Academy of Design.
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Nikolai Astrup quickly left to join Harriet Backer's painting school where he studied until 1901.
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Nikolai Astrup lived in Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian and was a student of Christian Krohg at Academie Colarossi from 1901 to 1902.
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In 1911, Nikolai Astrup studied under Lovis Corinth in Berlin at Arthur Lewin-Funcke's school of Painting.
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Nikolai Astrup held three significant exhibitions during his lifetime; at Kristiania 1905 and 1911 and at Bergen in 1908.
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Nikolai Astrup struggled with tuberculosis and general poor health as his asthma worsened.
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Nikolai Astrup's paintings describe an intimate interaction between nature and the developed environment, characterized by bold lines and distinctive rich color.
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Nikolai Astrup is regarded as a neo-romantic painter, but he worked with woodcuts.
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Nikolai Astrup is looked upon as one of the greatest Norwegian artists of the early 1900s, and several of his paintings have been sold at auctions for approximately US$500,000.