Hans Gude - Thunder Clouds over the Chiemsee - NG.M.00635-004 - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Hans Gude (1825–1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Gude's artistic career was not one marked with drastic change and revolution, but was instead a steady progression that slowly reacted to general trends in the artistic world.