Niels Gaihede

The painting shows a portrait of a man in profile wearing a fur cap and holding a wooden pipe in his mouth. The man has a dark beard and is wearing a dark coat with a visible button. The painting is executed in oil paint with an emphasis on texture and light, giving the portrait a very realistic look. The colours are mostly in warm tones with an emphasis on brown and beige shades. This painting has a painterly style characteristic of Impressionism or Post-Impressionism.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is portrait. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Christian Krohg (1852-1925) was a Norwegian naturalist, painter, illustrator, writer and journalist. He came from an influential family. His father, Georg Anton Krohg, was a lawyer and his grandfather was a cabinet minister. Following the example of his father, Christian studied law at the University of Oslo and arts at the University in Baden. He found great inspiration in the ideas of the Realists and depicted scenes from everyday life – rather from its dark, socially underrated side. Well-known are the images Survival, Mother with Child, or any work related to his scandalous novel Albertine. Krohg was the founding editor of the journal of the Czech Impressionists and was also a journalist in Oslo. Finally, he became the director and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts.