Viking Magazine - June 2019 - 20
W
hen you hear the
names Hercules or
Zeus, you may likely
recall the famous figures of Greek
mythology. But what about the
characters that dominated Norse
tales, such as the god Odin,
Valkyrie and Viking warriors, or
the deity Dagr? These heroes
of the North were not as often
represented by artists in the
1800s, but there was one person
in particular who captured that
narrative better, and more
frequently, than anyone else:
Peter Nicolai Arbo, a Norwegian
painter from Drammen.
20 VIKING JUNE 2019 sonsofnorway.com
A CHARMED CHILDHOOD
For Arbo, childhood was idyllic.
Born June 18, 1831 to Christian
Fredrik Arbo and Marie
Christiane Rosen, he had the
privilege of spending his earliest
years as a resident of Gulskogen
Manor, a classical country villa
along the banks of the Drammen
River in Norway, a short distance
from Oslo. His wealthy, jetsetting
relatives had purchased
the property from a farmer in
the late 1700s, infusing the estate
with English and Danish design
aesthetics. When they moved to
Denmark in 1809, the property
was converted to a rental home
for a short period of time before
Christian and Marie took it over
in 1828, three years before their
son Peter arrived.
With a Latin teacher for a
father, education was no doubt
an important piece of Arbo's
upbringing. His younger brother,
Carl Oscar Eugen Arbo, grew
up to become a military medical
doctor and pioneer in Norwegian
anthropological studies. But Peter,
on the other hand, expressed a more
creative interest in the arts.
PUTTING PAINT TO CANVAS
In 1851, at the age of 20, the budding
artist left home to attend an art school
in Copenhagen. There he studied
under Danish painter and drawing
master Frederik Ferdinand Helsted,
but it wasn't long before Arbo felt a
pull to explore outside of Scandinavia.
Even in the 19th century, Düsseldorf
Art Academy was a premiere arts
institution, not only respected in
" Saint Olaf at the Battle of Stiklestad "
" Battle of Stamford Bridge "
" King Sverre's Escape Over Voss Mountains "
Germany, but also around the globe.
And when Arbo arrived on the scene in
1853, he was in good company: In nearly
the decade that he spent there, he had the
opportunity to learn from familiar names
like German artist Karl Ferdinand Sohn,
fellow countrymen Adolph Tidemand
and Hans Gude, and history painter
Otto Mengelberg, under whom Arbo
studied privately for a while. But perhaps
most influential was Emil Johannes
Hünten, a German painter who was
known for his battle scenes.
War was a theme that came up often
in Arbo's paintings as well. One of his
earlier works, " Saint Olaf at the Battle
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