Otto Didrik Ottesen 🇩🇰 (1816-1892) | Still Life Danish Painter | ArtLiveAndBeauty

 

Otto Didrik Ottesen's Paintings

Artist Otto Didrik Ottesen (1816-1892) was born into a farming family. He was compelled to work as a shepherd and aid in the peasant economy from the age of eight to eighteen before making it to Copenhagen, where he began painting under a great painter. Otto Didrik Ottesenwas then accepted into the Academy of Arts and became an artist in 1839. He did not finish his education at the Academy of Fine Arts, however, and instead continued his education by studying the techniques of the Dutch masters. He debuted at Charlottenborg in 1842 with the painting "Flower," which depicted two fruits and one flower. ottesen

Artist Sara Riches (Danish artist)

Artist Sara Riches (Danish artist)

Sara lives in Denmark WA and has been selling her art internationally since 2013. Her art focuses on emotion in a way that is feminine and raw, playing with different media including ink, mix media, acrylics, oils and collage of vintage papers. She  is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products  Earlier this year she was part of the SEAF in Seattle and is currently exhibiting with Black Swan Art Prize in Perth.

Artist Peder Mork Monsted ( Dunisch artst )

Artist Peder Mork Monsted 

Was born 10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941-  Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings. Mønsted was born at Grenå, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a prosperous ship-builder. At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1878, Mønsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal family. After that, he visited Egypt and Spain. During his later years, he spent a great deal of time in Switzerland and travelling throughout the Mediterranean His travels produced numerous sketches that became paintings he presented at several international exhibitions. Most of his landscapes were devoted to Scandinavia. He was especially popular in Germany, where he held several shows at the Glaspalast in Munich. Most of his works are in private collections. In 1995, a major retrospective, called "Light of the North", was held in Frankfurt am Main.