Alfredo Andersen

Alfred Emil Andersen, known as Alfredo (3 November 1860, Kristiansand - 9 August 1935, Curitiba) was a Norwegian-born painter, sculptor, scenographer and art professor, who spent most of his life in Brazil.

He began his formal studies at the age of seventeen, in Christiania (Oslo) at the Academy of Fine Arts, under the direction of Wilhelm Krogh (1829-1913).

After that, he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, while working as a drawing teacher at an elementary school.

Their ship crashed in the port of Antonina, in Paraná, and they spent some time there while it was repaired; during which he painted some landscapes.

During that time, he painted his well-known portrait of the author, Knut Hamsun, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

On his seventy-first birthday, in 1931, he was made an honorary citizen of Curitiba, for his services to the local art community.