Nils Hansteen

Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen (1855–1912) was a Norwegian painter.^[1]

Nils Hansteen was born in Mo i Rana, in the county of Nordland, Norway. He attended the painting school of Knud Bergslien from 1873 and Peder Thurmann Cappelen (1874–1975). He later studied under Hans Gude in Karlsruhe from 1876 to 1877. He then lived in Munich (1877–1880), Italy (1880–1881) and Copenhagen (1887–1892).

He was known principally as a landscape and marine painter. He painted in a naturalistic style, with motifs from marine and forest environments. Two of his paintings are owned by the National Gallery of Norway.^[2]

References

^ Nils Severin Lynge Hansteen (Store norske leksikon)
^ "Hansteen, Nils Severin Lynge". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007. http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=582374.

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Name	Hansteen, Nils
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Date of birth	1855
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Date of death	1912
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