Hans Gude

Hans Gude was a Norwegian painter and university teacher born in Christiania in 1825. He specialized in landscape painting and worked in Düsseldorf. Gude was educated at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. He taught at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. His notable work is *Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord*.

Gude received the Royal Order of the Polar Star and was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. He had students including Charlotte von Krogh, Morten Müller, Stanislaus von Kalckreuth, and Christian Krohg. He was the father of Nils Gude and Ove Gude. Gude died in Berlin in 1903 and is buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund. His works are held in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Nationalmuseum, and the Museum Stavanger.