Munthe studied in Düsseldorf, Germany. The school there emphasized landscape painting and theatrical lighting more than most art schools did at the time.
Munthe was particularly attracted to twilight winter scenes. He loved a sky with a golden glow near the horizon. Figures scurry around outside, finishing their work before the day is done.
Munthe "wanted to interpret nature through simple, quiet landscape motifs, preferably an open low landscape, cultivated land or a coastal strip."
"Munthe had the axiom that there should be as few and simple lines as possible in a picture, and that there should never be a color in the picture that is not in itself sympathetic."
"In Düsseldorf, the simplicity of M's motifs was caricatured as a bare canvas with a tree, and on the tree one branch with one leaf."
Source of quote: Norwegian Artist Lexicon
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