Elias (Fiigenschow) Fiigenschou's father, saddler Hans (Fügenschouh) Fiigenschow, moved from Bregenz in Austria to Copenhagen in December 1599. He was invited by king Christian IV. as he was an excellent saddle maker.
Elias was born about 1595-1599 and died in 1660. In Norwegian art history he is known as the most important painter representing Dutch inspired baroque painting in Norway. But under Danish dominion Norwegian art and the painter Fiigenschou were forgotten.
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It was the antiquarian B. E. Bendixen that first discovered the signature E.F. on the altarpiece in Ølve church in Sunnhoedland and assumed it was the Flamish Italian Enrico Fiamingo. This was published in 1895, than more and more paintings were discovered with the signature E.F. In 1916 was the famous painting "Halsnøy Monastery" found in Skokloster castle's collection outside Stockholm, and about at the same time Joh. E. Brodal found, in a church book note from 1716 for one descendant of the painter, that the painters last name was wrong reading by A. E. Eriksen. The right spelling he told was Fiigenschoug. This spelling later been used in art history and in dictionary. But it is wrong. In documents from his own time he mostly is called Fiigenschou or Figenschow.
In Copenhagen his father the Royal saddler Hans Fügenschouh also called himself Fiigenschouf and Fiigenschow.
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