Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe

Johann Wilhelm Normann Munthe (27 July 1864 – 13 May 1935) was a Norwegian military officer and art collector.

Munthe was an avid collector of Chinese works of arts, and his collection includes porcelain, paintings, costumes, and statues in bronze and marble. The collection now resides with the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum) in Bergen.

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon also holds a large number of works collected by Munthe and later acquired by the museum's founder, Gertrude Bass Warner (1863–1951).

Personal life In 1919, he married German-born Alexandra Ethelred von Herder (1867–1920 ). She was the widow of Frederick William Grantham (1870–1915) and was the mother of Sir Alexander Grantham (1899–1978) who was Governor of Hong Kong from 1947 to 1957.

Munthe died during 1935 in Beijing and was buried at the British Municipal Cemetery in Tianjin.