Norwegian landscape painter. He received his first art lessons in Bergen with Johan Ludvig Losting. In 1863 he was a student of Frederik Rohde in Copenhagen and attended the art academy. He studied from 1864 to 1867 with Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Academy. He began to paint various landscape designs after 1870 to satisfy the demand of tourists for pictures of fjords. He became one of the most productive fjord painters and had his greatest success in Germany. He never repeated the motives and gave each image a unique touch. After his studies he settled in Düsseldorf. In 1899 he moved to Berlin, and spent only the summer holidays in his native country, where he also sold directly to tourists. His works are displayed in the museums of Bergen, Copenhagen, Dresden and Düsseldorf. //