Peder Cappelen Thurmann (18 March 1839,

Halden Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a List of cities in Norway, town and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Østfold Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, R ...

- 21 May 1919, Christiania) was a Norwegian landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Life and work

He was the son of pastor, Carl Fredrik Thurmann, and his wife, Ottilia Christine née Ottesen. Later, he became the brother-in-law of the missionary bishop, . In 1854, he began attending the

Royal Drawing School The Royal Drawing School is a not-for-profit educational organisation and registered charity in Shoreditch, in the London Borough of Hackney, England. It was founded in 2000 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and artist Catherine Goodma ...

in Christiania, where he studied under

Joachim Frich Joachim Christian Geelmuyden Gyldenkrantz Frich (24 July 1810 – 29 January 1858) was a Norwegian landscape painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting (''Düsseldorf-skolen''). Biography Joachim Frich was from Bergen, No ...

. After that, he went to

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

, as did most of the Norwegian artists of his time. He was enrolled at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...

from 1856 to 1859. There, he studied with Joseph Wintergerst and

Hans Fredrik Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Roma ...

Bettina Baumgärtel Bettina Baumgärtel (born 1957) is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Proje ...

, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: ''Verzeichnis der ausländischen Künstler und Künstlerinnen. Nationalität, Aufenthalt und Studium in Düsseldorf''. In

(ed.): ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918''.

Michael Imhof Verlag Michael Imhof Verlag is a German publishing company in Petersberg, Hesse. They are known especially for publishing books with a local interest, on art, on history, politics, religion, nature, and culture. Besides titles in German German(s) may r ...

, Petersberg 2011, , Vol.1, pg.441 He then spent several years in Munich; taking study trips to

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and Italy. He married Anna Maria Catharina Enzinger (1842–1925), and they had eight children. After returning to Christiania in 1869, he became a teacher of freehand drawing at the Royal Drawing School. From 1873 to 1875, he replaced

Morten Müller Morten Müller (13 February 1828 – 10 February 1911) was a Norwegian landscape painter. Biography Morten Müller was born by the Christianiafjord at Holmestrand, in Vestfold County, Norway. Morten Müller began his art studies with Adolph ...

at the private drawing school founded by

Johan Fredrik Eckersberg Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (16 June 1822 – 13 July 1870) was a Norwegian painter most noted for his landscapes. Eckersberg was a prominent figure in the transition from Romanticism to Realism (arts), Realism in 19th-century Norwegian art, both ...

. He was senior teacher at the Royal school from 1884 to 1912. During this time, he also travelled extensively; visiting Austria, Italy, Denmark and Germany.

Hans Heyerdahl Hans Olaf Halvor Heyerdahl (8 July 1857 – 10 October 1913) was a Norwegian Realist painter. His work was characterized by naturalism and focused largely on portraits and landscape paintings. Biography Heyerdahl was born in Smedjebacken, Swed ...

was one of his best known students.

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genealogical data @ Vestraat {{DEFAULTSORT:Thurmann, Peder Cappelen 1839 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian landscape painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni People from Halden Norwegian expatriates in Germany

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