Photo, Herman Gade

Objectnumber: RA 0066

Width photograph: 16.3 cm

Height photograph:  22.6 cm

Width frame: 26.5 cm

Height frame: 34.0 cm

Depth frame: 1,5 cm
Materials: glass, wood, paper

Herman Gade was Roald Amundsen’s best friend. They had contact most of their lives. Gade lived and worked in several places in America, both as mayor and consul in several cities, and as minister in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gade was often visited by Roald Amundsen, who greatly appreciated his entire family. When Roald Amundsen went bankrupt, Herman Gade and Don Pedro Christophersen bought Amundsen’s properties in Svartskog, but still allowed Amundsen to live there.

After Amundsen disappeared in 1928, Gade gave Uranienborg to the Norwegian state and made sure that it became a museum. At the end of his life, Gade lived with his wife in the Château du Mesnil-Saint-Denis, outside Paris. He died in 1943.

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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1890
Starting university
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1918
Maud expedition
1919 – 1928
Photo, Herman Gade
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1925
To 88 degrees north
1926
Norge expedition
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1928
Latham flight
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital