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Carl Frithjof Smith (5 April 1859 - 11 October 1917) was a Norwegian portrait andgenre painter who spent his career inGermany.[1]
Carl Frithjof Smith was born atChristiania, Norway.His father, Christian August Smith, was afurrier. At the age of eighteen, he began working as a draftsman in the mechanical workshops ofTrondheim. It was there that he took up painting in his spare time.
In 1880, he applied for a state travel grant, but was rejected. Nevertheless, he left Norway and enrolled at theAcademy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied until 1884, when he had his debut at theAutumn Exhibition at Christiania. His primary instructor there was thegenre painterLudwig von Löfftz, who influenced him to focus on genre scenes as well.[2] In 1890, he was called to be a professor at theGrand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, and remained there in that capacity until 1904.[3] After his resignation, he continued to live in Weimar, as he had become a full member of theDeutscher Künstlerbund. He died atWeimar in 1917.[4]
Perhaps his best known student wasMax Beckmann. He won gold medals at exhibitions in Berlin in 1886 and 1891 (at the Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung). He was also awarded a medal at theGlaspalast (Munich) and won the silver Staatsmedaille in Vienna at the Jubiläumsausstellung (1888). In addition, he held several showings at theGrosse Berliner Kunstausstellung in Berlin. His works were familiar throughout Germany and Sweden, but not in Norway, as he seldom exhibited there, despite making several extended trips home. On one of these trips, he did a portrait of the internationally known playwright,Henrik Ibsen.[5]
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