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Christian Krohg

Christian Krohg (1852 - 1925) was active/lived in Norway.  Christian Krohg is known for Naturalist social realist theme painting-figure and genre, illustration.

Christian Krohg was a Norwegian naturalist* painter, illustrator, author and journalist.

Krohg was the son of lawyer and statesman Georg Anton Krohg (1817-73) and the grandson of Christian Krohg (1777-1828) who was a government minister.  Krohg studied law at the University of Oslo (then Christiania) (1869-73) and was educated in Germany at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe under Hans Gude, and later worked in Paris from 1881 to 1882.

Inspired by the ideas of the realists*, he chose motives primarily from everyday life - often its darker or socially inferior sides. Particularly well known are his pictures of prostitutes, his novel Albertine from 1886 is about this theme. The book caused a scandal when first published, and was confiscated by the police.

Krohg's powerful and straightforward style made him one of the leading figures in the transition from romanticism* to naturalism, characteristic of Norwegian art in this period. Through his periodic r   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1969 characters.]  Artist bio

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