Peder Monsted (1859-1941)
Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings.
Mønsted was born at Grenå, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a a prosperous ship-builder. At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsenand Julius Exner. In 1878, Mønsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.
In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal family. After that, he visited Egypt and Spain.
During his later years, he spent a great deal of time in Switzerland and travelling throughout the Mediterranean His travels produced numerous sketches that became paintings he presented at several international exhibitions. Most of his landscapes were devoted to Scandinavia. He was especially popular in Germany, where he held several shows at the Glaspalast in Munich.
Most of his works are in private collections. In 1995, a major retrospective, called "Light of the North", was held in Frankfurt am Main.
Peder Monsted
A Cottage Garden With Chickens $450.00A Stream and Several Deer $450.00A Stream Through The Glen, Deer In The Distance $450.00A Wooded River Landscape $450.00At Seaby $450.00Athenian Ruins $450.00Birch Trees By A Stream $450.00Bromolle Farm With Chickens $450.00Entrance To Bjaelkestuen In Hornbaek $450.00Flodbred By The River $450.00In The Shadow Of An Italian Pergola $450.00Landscape With Deer $450.00Landscape With Sheep $450.00Laundry Day $450.00Lindenborg Kro $450.00On The Snowy Path $450.00On The Venetian Lagoon $450.00Ponte-Campovasto $450.00River Landscape In Springtime $450.00Skovparti Med Alob, River Landscape $450.00Skovstraekning Woodland Landscape $450.00Snowy Forest Road In Sunlight $450.00Spring In Hjembaek $450.00Summer Landscape With River Floodplain $450.00