1. Stephan Abel Sinding was a Norwegian-Danish sculptor.
11 Facts About Stephan Sinding
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Stephan Sinding moved to Copenhagen in 1883 and had his breakthrough the same year.
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Stephan Abel Sinding was born in Trondhjem as a son of mining engineer Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell.
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Stephan Sinding was a first cousin of Alfred Sinding-Larsen and the three siblings Ernst Anton Henrik Sinding, Elisabeth Sinding and Gustav Adolf Sinding.
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Stephan Sinding took drawing and modeling classes first at the Royal School of Drawing in Christiania and then studied privately with sculptor Albert Wolff in Berlin.
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Stephan Sinding spent his adult life working in different places mostly Rome, Copenhagen, and finally Paris.
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Stephan Sinding was met with poor recognition from the Norwegian public since his style was considered too modern.
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Many of Stephan Sinding's sculptures are credited to realism, but together with Danish sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen, among others, are by many considered much more in the style of Symbolism.
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Stephan Sinding became a titular professor and taught private students in Copenhagen.
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In 1910 Stephan Sinding moved to Paris, where he worked until his death.
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Stephan Sinding died in January 1922 in Paris, and was buried at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.