A life in lines and light Henry Thue began his path far from the easel, trained initially as an engineer at the Kristiania tekniske skole. It was only in 1914 that he turned toward the study of art, moving through the academies of Weimar and Copenhagen before finding his way to the Statens Kunstakademi in Christiania under the guidance of Chr. Krohg. His hands, once accustomed to the precision of technical drawing, learned the softer d…