Artist

Peter Nicolai Arbo

1831–1892 · born in Gulskogen · died in Christiania

Peter Nicolai Arbo was a Norwegian painter born in 1831 who studied in Düsseldorf and Munich. He painted Norse myth and Viking history, making them familiar to Norwegians. His 'Wild Hunt of Odin' is his most famous painting. He died in Christiania in 1892.