Henrik Lund

Who was Henrik Lund?

Henrik Louis Lund was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist.

He was born in Bergen as a son of lieutenant colonel Henrik Louis Bull Lund and pianist Birgitte Charlotte Carlsen. His sister was composer Signe Lund. He spent much of his young days at sea, and probably had a naval career in mind. However, he was not admitted to the Norwegian Naval Academy.

He moved to Kristiania where he met painting student Per Deberitz, who was a student of Hans Gude and who probably turned Lund's interest to this profession. He was a pupil of Harriet Backer, debuted the same year, and studied further by Johan Nordhagen. Lund had his first exhibit in 1899 and his first Autumn Exhibit in 1901. He lived in Paris, he exhibited in Berlin. He lived in Copenhagen from 1904 to 1909, and broke through here. He held several notable exhibitions, including "The Six" in Berlin and Copenhagen in 1911.

He belonged to a group of young painters at the beginning of the 1900s was called Neo-Impressionists. He befriended such painters as Ludvig Karsten, Søren Onsager, Bernhard Folkestad, Arne Kavli, Theodor Laureng and Anders Svarstad, and drew inspiration from Ludvig Karsten, Edvard Munch and Christian Krohg.