Career Mathias Stoltenberg



stoltenberg s portrait of hans michelsen


stoltenberg studied carpentry in copenhagen, took lessons in portrait painting christian august lorentzen. in norway earned living travelling portrait painter , carpenter. after father died in 1830, family home in tønsberg dissolved. stoltenberg s travels covered large parts of norway. during 1830s , 1840s visited gudbrandsdalen, dovre, districts around kristaniafjorden, northern norway, trondheim, numedal, telemark , Østerdalen. late 1840s lived in vang, hedmark. paintings portraits, , landscapes.


his art recognized after 1914 jubilee exhibition @ frogner in kristiania, , represented in several museums. national gallery of norway has fifteen of portraits , 3 landscape paintings, among them utsikt til vang kirke (view of vang church) 1863.



strømsø church, 1847


stoltenberg s paintings first described hans Ødegaard in 1914, in norske malere. mathias stoltenberg og lars hertervig. Ødegaard responsible exhibition of older norwegian art @ 1914 jubilee exhibition. in addition stoltenberg, lars hertervig, johannes flintoe , peder balke other more or less forgotten painters found way museums , galleries after exhibition.


henrik grevenor wrote biography of stoltenberg in 1935, mathias stoltenberg. en kunstner mellom tidsaldre (mathias stoltenberg. artist between 2 epochs).








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