Peder M\u00f8rk M\u00f8nsted (10 December 1859 \u2013 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings in a realistic style. His favorite motifs include snowy winter landscapes, still water, and forests. M\u00f8nsted was born at Balle M\u00f8lle near Gren\u00e5, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian M\u00f8nsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a prosperous shipbuilder. At an early age, he began receiving painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1878, M\u00f8nsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Kr\u00f8yer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau. He gradually developed a personal style of academic naturalism. M\u00f8nsted was a habitual traveler. In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he traveled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal family. After that, he visited Egypt and Spain. During his later years, he spent a great deal of time in Switzerland and traveling throughout the Mediterranean. His travels produced numerous sketches that became paintings he presented at several international exhibitions. He was especially popular in Germany, where he held several shows at the Glaspalast in Munich. Most of his works are in private collections. In 1995, a major retrospective, called \"Light of the North\", was held in Frankfurt am Main.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Painting by the Danish artist Peder Mork M\u00d8NSTED, oil on canvas<\/p>\n
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