Brief Biography-Hans Fredrik Gude was born in Christiania in 1825. After taking private lessons, he received tuition at the Royal School of Drawing. In 1842, he entered the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, studied under Andreas Achenbach and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and later received support from Karl Friedrich Lessing. Gude became a landscape painting professor at the Academy from 1854 until 1857. He spent a year in Wales painting mountains before accepting a professorship at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe in 1863. In 1880, he moved to the Berlin Academy of Art, where he taught until his retirement in 1901. Norway holds Hans Gude as one of their most noted artists.