Knud Baade

[1][2][3] Knud Andreassen Baade was born in Skjold (a village in present-day Vindafjord Municipality in Rogaland county), Norway.

[3] He began his artistic education at the age of fifteen, under the Danish-Swedish painter, Carl Peter Lehmann (1794-1876).

In 1827 he went to Copenhagen, where he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for about three years, until financial difficulties forced him to move to Christiania (now Oslo) and take up portrait-painting.

He also traveled northward to Trondheim and as far north as Bodø (town) in search of material for his pictures.

In 1846 he moved to Munich, where he soon earned a reputation as a landscape painter, producing views of his native country and the scenes around its coasts, mostly depicted with moonlight effects.