Artist

Christian Krohg

1852–1925 · born in Vestre Aker · died in Oslo

Christian Krohg was born near Christiania (now Oslo) and was a painter, writer and a leader of the Realist movement in Norway. He studied in Germany and France and painted fishermen, poor people and the sea. He supported social change and caused controversy with his novel and paintings. He died in Oslo in 1925.