Carl Frithjof Smith (1859-1917) " Scène De Ferme"

Carl Frithjof Smith (1859 – 1917)
"Scène de ferme"
Oil on canvas
Signed at the bottom right
size cm. 106 x 130
size with frame cm. 144 x 167

biography
Carl Frithjof Smith was born in Christiania, Norway in 1859. At the age of eighteen, he began working as a draftsman in the mechanical workshops of Trondheim: it was there that he started painting in his free time. In 1880, he left Norway and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied until 1884, when he debuted at the Autumn Exhibition in Christiania. In 1890, he was called as a professor to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar: he remained in that position until 1904. He died in Weimar in 1917. Smith won gold medals at the Berlin exhibitions in 1886 and 1891 (at the International Art Exhibition). He also received a medal at the Glaspalast (in Munich) and won the silver Staatsmedaille in Vienna at the Jubilee Exhibition (1888). Additionally, he held several exhibitions at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in Berlin. His works became well-known throughout Germany and Sweden.