Apr 26, 2021
Olaf Rude (April 26, 1886 - 1957) was a Danish Modernist painter who spent much time on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. He was born in Estonia to Danish parents, grew up on an estate on another Danish island, Lolland (Skejten), and was educated in Copenhagen. He traveled extensively in Europe and sucked up influences from all the current trends in contemporary art from 1911-1914. During WWI he traveled to Northern Norway, and studied landscape painting. Late in life he shifted to portrait painting.
Above is one of two large paintings of his in the Danish Parliament, both titled Dansk Landskab (Danish Landscape), 1954. The paintings show scenery from Skejten, Lolland.
