deaths
August 17, 1903
Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (born 1825)
Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude 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.
August 17
August 17 is the 229th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 136 days remain until the end of the year.