Peter Nicolai Arbo

Training under Otto Mengelberg is recorded. The recorded working language is Norwegian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Residence is recorded at Gulskogen Manor. Work by Peter Nicolai Arbo is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Nationalmuseum, Oslo Museum, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of St.

• Birth Name — Peter Nicolai Arbo • Born — 18 June 1831 • Birthplace — Drammen, Norway • Died — 14 October 1892 • Place of death — Oslo, Norway • Training — Kunstakademie Düsseldorf • Illustration — The Wild Hunt of Odin, a Norse version of Wild Hunt (1872), Oslo

Peter Nicolai Arbo grew up at Gulskogen Manor in Gulskogen, a borough in Drammen, Norway. He was the son of headmaster Christian Fredrik Arbo (1791–1868) and his wife Marie Christiane von Rosen. His brother Carl Oscar Eugen Arbo was a military medical doctor and a pioneer in Norwegian anthropologic studies. Arbo's childhood home, Gulskogen, was built in 1804 as a summer residence for his older cousin, lumber dealer and industrialist Peter Nicolai Arbo. Arbo started his art education with a year at the Art School operated by Frederik Ferdinand Helsted (1809–1875) in Copenhagen (1851–1852). After this, he studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf. From 1853 to 1855 he studied under of Karl Ferdinand Sohn, professor of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and from 1857 to 1858 under Emil Hünten who was a battle and animal painter. At Düsseldorf he was for some time a private student of the religious painter, Otto Mengelberg. He had contact with Adolph Tidemand and became a good friend of Hans Gude both of whom were professors at the art academy in Düsseldorf. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1861 Arbo returned to Norway and the following year he went on a study trip together with Gude and Frederik Collett. In 1863 he painted the first version of Horse flock on the high mountains, a motif he later on took up again several times. The version from 1889 is at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Norwegian: Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design) in Oslo and is considered one of the most important of his works. From 1863 he lived in Paris until 1870, when he moved back to Norway and settled in Oslo where he was appointed director of the Art School. In 1866 he was appointed Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and Knight of the Order of Vasa. He held numerous positions, including as a juror in Stockholm in 1866 and Philadelphia in 1876, and was Commissioner of the Viennese art department exhibition in 1873. He was also a member of the National Gallery Company from 1875 and director of the Oslo Kunstforening (Oslo Art Society) from 1882 until his death.

• Illustration — Saint Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad (1859) • Illustration — Håkon the Good (1860) • Illustration — King Sverre's march over the Vossefjell (1861) • Illustration — Ingeborg, Frithjof's beloved (1868) • Illustration — Valkyrie (1864 version) • Illustration — Valkyrie (1869 version) • Illustration — Battle of Stamford Bridge (1870) • Illustration — Dagr (1874) • Illustration — «Liden Gunver» og Havmanden (1874-1880) • Illustration — Gizur challenges the Huns (1886) • Illustration — The Crowning of Olav I of Norway • Illustration — John the Apostle (1866)