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Peder Mork Monsted
(1859-1941)
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Peder Mork Monsted was born in Grenċ in 1859 and already as child he started at the drawing school of heir presumptive Ferdinand. He also received training under the landscape painter Andreas Fritz and in 1875 he started his studies at Kunstakademiet (the Academy of Fine Arts) in Copenhagen. He studied there for four years and was introduced to the genre and landscape painting of the late romanticism by J.F. Vermehren, J. Exner and N. Simonsen.

Monsted chose to leave the Academy in order to study under P.S.Kroeyer and later under W.A. Bouguereau in Paris. W.A. Bouguereau was a very popular painter of his time who gave lessons in the naturalistic style that was dominating at the most important European exhibitions. Monsted learned to master the technique and when he presented his works to a Danish audience, the renewal was welcomed.

Monsted liked to travel. He travelled widely and often in Europe. In 1892 he made a sea journey on the corvette Skt. Thomas to the Mediterranean with visits in Greece and Egypt. He exhibited extensively at all the important exhibitions in Denmark, Charlottenborg, Kunstnernes Efteraarsudstilling (the Artist's Fall Exhibition), Kunstnerforeningen (the Artist Society) and Foreningen for National Kunst (the Society of National Art).

Abroad he exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris 1889, at the International Kunst Ausstellung in the Glaspalast München 1892 and in Nordische Kunst-Ausstellung in Lubeck 1895. He is represented at several museums in Denmark, among the renowned Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish National Gallery). Price example: He sold "In the forest, Winter" for $145,258 at Sotheby's, London in April 2000 (Lot 20, 41" by 55 1/8").