Frants Diderik Bøe
Norwegian painter (1820-1891)
Frants Diderik Bøe(28 May 1820 — 13 November 1891) was a Norwegian painter, who specialized in still life and landscapes.
Biography
Frants Diderik Bøe was born and grew up in Bergen, Norway, as the second oldest of seven siblings. Encouraged by the local artistic community, including Johan Christian Dahl, he moved to Copenhagen where he enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. There he studied with the architect Gustav Friedrich Hetsch and sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen. He also trained with artist, Christen Købke. In 1849, he moved to Paris, where he studied under the expatriate Danish painter Theude Grønland (1817–1876). Starting in 1852, his vision became impaired from eye disease which would come to effect his later works.
After eight years in Paris, he returned to Norway. He lived in Nordland from 1858 to 1861 and from 1863 to 1864, principally painting landscapes and scenes from nature. He married Hanna Maria Arnesen, a teacher from Lofoten, in 1864.
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