'' Karsten grew up in a wealthy home in
Christiania (now
Oslo). He started taking drawing lessons 13 years old. In 1893 he made a study tour to
Telemark, where he made landscape sketches and portraits, and also joined painter
Halfdan Egedius. After graduating from secondary school in 1895, he travelled to
Rome, and later to
Florence and
Munich. In 1896 he travelled in Spain, and settled for a while in
Madrid. He left Spain in 1898, and was enrolled in the Norwegian Armed Forces at
Gardermoen for some months. He then travelled to Munich, where he painted
En mann og en kvinne, also called
Adam and Eve, which has later been located at the
Stenersen Museum. He visited Paris in autumn 1900, where he trained on
models. In 1901 he was in
Åsgårdstrand, where he painted
Two Men and
Three Boys, which were both shown at his first appearance at the
Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901. Karsten returned to Paris, where he spent several years. He was known for his boozing and temperament. After a fight with the poet
Nils Collett Vogt he was temporarily expelled from the circle of Norwegian artists residing in Paris. He visited the museum
Louvre, where he paraphrased
Riberas painting of the burial of Christ. The painting was bought by
Frits Thaulow, and came to be Karsten's the first important sale. It was resold to the National Gallery in Oslo in 1909, after Thaulow's death. Karsten's first separate exhibition, at
Blomqvist in Kristiania in September and October 1904, received mixed critic in the newspapers. In 1905 he visited
Edvard Munch at
Åsgårdstrand, where Munch made a large portrait of him. After a night of heavy drinking, possibly on
Midsummer Eve, it came to quarrel which led to a violent fight between Munch and Karsten. Munch later made an
etching of his version of the incident. From 1910 Karsten lived mostly in Copenhagen, where he married in 1913. In 1920, he bought a house in
Skagen where he began painting large landscapes in his
pointillé style, attracted by the bright local light. Karsten was also well known for his paraphrases of works by elder painters, including 16th-century artist
Jacopo Bassano and 17th-century artists
Jusepe de Ribera and
Rembrandt. Ludvig Karsten Blå stol.jpg|
Blå stol (
Blue chair) Ludvig Karsten Stående akt 1910.jpg |
Standing nude (1910) Ludvig Karsten Gobelin 1911.jpg|
Gobelin 1911 Ludvig Karsten - Spring Evening at Ula - Google Art Project.jpg|
Spring Evening at Ula Ludvig Karsten Nedtagelsen 1925.jpg |
Deposition (1925) Ludvig Karsten Hvitkledd mann i skagenlandskap 1924.jpg |
White-Suited Man in Skagen Landscape (1924) ==References==