Background
Andreas Aubert was the son of Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert who was a classical scholar and professor of philology at the University of Oslo.
Andreas Aubert was the son of Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert who was a classical scholar and professor of philology at the University of Oslo.
He studied theology candidate.theol.
Andreas Aubert was a student at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (1869-1871), before he began to study theology. (1877) and then worked as a teacher at Aars and Voss (1878–1895). Andreas Aubert wrote extensively about Norwegian artist, Johan Christian Dahl starting with an autobiography titled Et stykke af Aarhundredets Kunstog Kulturhistorie in 1893.
He became a professional art historian, critic and researcher
Aubert also championed Edvard Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Arnold Böcklin, Max Klinger, Gabriel von Max, and Vilhelm Hammershøi. He described them as "neurasthenics", by which he meant that their art was oriented toward the psychological.
He had an important role in restoring the legacy of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, now considered the leading artist of that period, toward the end of the 19th century.