Born: Assens, 1842
Died: Frederiksberg, 1905
Niss, Thorvald Simon: (1842-1905)
- Born May 7, 1842 in Assens DK, son of Niels Frederik Niss, mother unknown
Education:
- Studied under his father as an artist
- 1861-1869 & 1874 - Royal Danish Academy of Art
- Late 1970’s - Studied under Otto Bache
- 1885-86 & 1892 - Studied in Italy and Greece
- 1889 - Studied in Paris
Exhibits:
- 1870-1905 - Charlottenborg Palace, DK
- 1882 - Vienna
- 1889 - Paris
- 1893 - Chicago
- 1895 - Venice
- 1900 - Paris
- 1907 - London
- 1910-11 - Berlin
Awards:
- 1882 - Award in Vienna
- 1900 - Awarded Silver Medal in Paris
*Thorvald Niss began his career painting at the Royal Porcelain factory in DK. His passionate depictions of nature and marine life is what made him a world renown artist.
A painter of the Danish school, Niss most typically executed water scenes and landscapes. He was a student of the painter Otto Bache (1839-1927) at the Academy of Copenhagen. He exhibited his pieces in various locales, including Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris. In 1882, he was awarded a gold medal in Vienna, followed by medals in Paris at the Expositions Universelles of 1889 and 1900.