Otto Ludvig Sinding (December 16, 1842 – November 23, 1909) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, poet and dramatist. Sinding drew on motives from Norwegian nature, folk life and history.

Otto Sinding was born in Kongsberg. He was the older brother of the sculptor Stephan Sinding and the composer Christian Sinding. Otto Sinding went to art school in Christiania where he studied law and served as a civil servant. His first attempts at landscape painting earned him a scholarship, with which he went to Karlsruhe in Germany where he continued his studies. He studied art under Hans Gude at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe. ^[1] It was there that Sinding also came into contact with Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Riefstahl and Karl Theodor von Piloty.

In 1876 he returned to Norway and then painted the altarpiece of Christ on the cross for Paul's Church in Christiania (Oslo) and several pictures by Norwegian folk tales and dramatic coastlines . In 1880 he made a trip to Italy and then settled in Munich, where he painted a series of animated landscapes and marines. During the winter of 1886, he undertook a study trip to the Lofoten Islands. Some of his best known works would be his landscape paintings from Lofoten. In 1891 he established residence in Lysaker. From 1903 on the artist lived in Munich where he was a professor at the Art Academy ofMunich.

• Otto Sinding German Wikipedia article
• From an article by Frank Jensen about the artists of northern Norway