Knud Baade

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Knut Baade (1879)

Knud Baade (28 March 1808 - 24 November 1879) was a Norwegian painter. Knud Baade was mainly a portrait and landscape painter, and was particularly known for its moonlight paintings which were characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow.

Biography

Knud Andreassen Baade was born in Skjold, a former municipality now in Vindafjord in Rogaland county, Norway. He moved while still a boy with his family to Bergen. He started his education when 15 years old as a student of the Danish-Swedish painter,Carl Peter Lehmann (1794-1876). In 1827 he went to Copenhagen, and there studied at the Academy for about three years, when want of means compelled him to go to Christiania and commence portrait-painting. Back in Norway in 1829 he began as a portrait painter in Christiania, but when his father was magistrate in Sogn, he followed his family to the parish of Solvorn in Luster. The mountain-topped fiords and rocky bays afforded ample subjects for his pencil. He also traveled northward to Trondheim and as far north to Bodø in search of material for his pictures.

In 1836 he was persuaded by the well-known landscape painter, Dahl, to go to Dresden, in which city he studied for three years. Here he also met Caspar David Friedrich and was strongly influenced by the German Romantic. He returned to his native country in 1839 due of a disease in his eyes. In 1846 he went to Munich, and soon earned as a landscape painter a reputation, which he increased year by year, executing paintings of his native country and the scenes around his native coasts, which he mostly depicted with moonlight effects. Though but an invalid, he laboured at Munich continually until his death, which occurred in that city in 1879.

Baade was painter to the Court of Sweden, and a member of the Academy of Arts at Stockholm. Knud Baade painted some fine portraits, especially in younger years, including portraits of his mother and father (1836). In addition to several trips to Sogn and Hardanger, Baade traveled a lot in Germany. He also painted landscape scenes from Bavaria, Saxony, Tyrol and Switzerland during the study tours on the continent. He is represented in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design with 52 paintings.

Selected works

• Oslo. National Gallery. Wood at North Kyst
• Oslo. National Gallery. Øen Trænen i Nordland (The island Trænen, Nordland), 1838.
• London. South Kensington Museum. The Wreck
• Munich. Pinakothek. Scene from Norse Mythology
• Stockholm. Nationalmuseum. Ship by Moonlight

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "BAADE, Knud". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]