(b Stege, Møn, 3 July 1866; d Copenhagen, 13 Feb 1906). Danish painter. From 1883 to 1884 he received his first artistic education from the critic, writer and painter Karl Madsen (1855–1938), who introduced him to the work of Corot, and the painter Karl Jensen (1851–1933). From 1884 to 1888 he attended the Free Art School in Copenhagen, set up in reaction to the Akademi by a group of artists that included P. S. Kroyer. Thereafter Gottschalk was dedicated to plein-air landscape painting. His works originated from numerous excursions made in Denmark, even to the most remote parts. Spring, Glostrup (1887; Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst) combines a daring diagonal composition with a sensitive rendering of colour and light. He also visited Paris and Germany and spent several months in Rome in 1904.