Peder Mørk Mønsted

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(10 December 1859, Grenå, Denmark – 20 June 1941, Fredensborg, Denmark)
Nationality: Danish
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: Photorealistic approach to his subjects, romantic and poetic view of nature, meticulous attention to both detail and colour.
Art genre: landscape and portraite paintings.
Education: He receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. In 1875, Mønsted moved to Copenhagen, where from 1875 to 1878 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.
In 1878 Mønsted left the Academy to study under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer.
Personal life:
He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted, a prosperous ship-builder, and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. He had an elder brother, Niels.
On March 14th, 1889, at Frederiksberg, Peder Mork Mønsted married Elna Mathilde Marie Sommer. Nine years later the couple had a son, Tage.
Traveling which Boosts Creativity:
Mønsted travelled extensively throughout his long career, being a frequent visitor to Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, North Africa and the Middle East..
In 1882 -1883, he spent time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), the famous French academic painter.
In 1884, he first visited North Africa, in 1885 his journeys took him to Sicily and Taormina
and in 1889, he went to Algeria. After that, he visited Egypt and Spain.
During his later years, he spent a great deal of time in Switzerland and travelling throughout the Mediterranean.
His travels produced numerous sketches that became paintings.
He established himself in Copenhagen and most of his landscapes and coastlines were devoted to Scandinavia.
He was especially popular in Germany, where he held several shows at the Glaspalast in Munich. In 1995, a major retrospective, called “Light of the North”, was held in Frankfurt am Main.
The artist died in Fredensborg, Denmark on June 20, 1941, aged 81.
His works can be found in museums: Chi-Mei Museum in Taiwan and the Dahesh Museum in New York, in Aalborg and Bautzen.
Most of his works are in private collections.