Niels Gaihede
1888 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 × 30.5 cm
Niels Gaihede was the grandfather of the Gaihede family whom Krohg became lifelong friends with at the Skagen artist colony. Krohg used the family to model many paintings for him from the grandparents to the grandchildren doing normal routine scenes of daily like in Skagen.
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Niels Gaihede (1888) by Christian Krohg, oil on canvas.
About Christian Krohg
Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motives from everyday life. He was the director and served as the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts from 1909 to 1925.
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