Ludvig Skramstad

Ludvig Skramstad (30 December 1855 – 26 December 1912) was a Norwegian landscape painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Biography Skramstad was born at Hamar in Hedmark, Norway. His father was a painter and glazier. At the age of fifteen, he went to Oslo to attend the Royal Drawing School. From 1871 to 1874, he attended the private art school operated by Knud Bergslien and Morten Müller, who had a great influence on his style. After 1874, he went to Düsseldorf, where he attended the private school of fellow Norwegian artist .

In 1875, he took a study trip along the Rhine, then returned to Norway. Once there, he travelled to Gudbrandsdalen, Sogn, Hardanger and Hallingdal. His first exhibition was in 1875 at the Oslo Kunstforening. In 1878, a grant from "Schäffers Legat", for painters and sculptors, enabled him to visit London and Paris.

In 1884, he married Aurora Guidotti (1855-1888), the daughter of an immigrant Italian pewter maker. She died four years later and he married her sister, Vincentia Sofie Emma Guidotti (1852-1944) who outlived him by thirty-two years.

Selected paintings