Oscar Ambrosius Castberg (30 September 1846 – 18 June 1917) was a Norwegian painter and sculptor.

Biography

He was born at

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, Norway . His father, physician Tycho Fredrik Edvard Castberg, was the oldest living son of priest and politician Peter Hersleb Harboe Castberg. Oscar Ambrosius Castberg was the nephew of customs surveyor

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and first cousin of Johan and

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. Oscar Ambrosius Castberg had one older brother, banker Peter Harboe Castberg.Slekten Castberg gjennem 300 år
, by A. St. Castberg. Oscar Ambrosius Castberg first tried his luck at sea, but gave this up due to problems with

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. Instead, he took a sculptor's education, studying with a public grant under Julius Middelthun in Christiania and Jens Adolf Jerichau in Copenhagen. Due to the difficulty of surviving from sculpting alone, he also became a painter. He took up landscape painting on a naturalistic basis with motifs principally from Kristiania and the surrounding area. He is represented with one work in the

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. Castberg died in 1917 in

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