Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norways foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism. He is associated with the Dsseldorf school of painting.
Gude was born in Christiania in 1825 the son of Ove Gude, a judge, and Marie Elisabeth Brandt.
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