Tycho Christoffer Jæger was a Norwegian painter.

He was born in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 as a son of the first cousins, shoemaker Tycho Christoffer Jæger and Øllegaard Jæger. He was an uncle of Henrik Jæger

Henrik Jæger

Henrik Jæger was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic and playwright.He was born in Bergen as a son of sailmaker Herman Jæger and Birgitte Pedersen. He was a nephew of Tycho Jæger...

. From September 1870 he was married to Bergithe Steendahl (1850–1932).

He painted between 1841 and 1889, almost exclusively landscapes. He studied partly in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, in the 1840s. He also travelled in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and lived in Bergen and Leikanger

Leikanger

is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Leikanger, which is also the administrative center of Sogn og Fjordane county....

 after taking his education. Norsk biografisk leksikon

Norsk biografisk leksikon

Norsk biografisk leksikon is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia.The first edition was issued between 1921 and 1983, including 19 volumes and 5,100 articles...

called two of his paintings "among the most peculiar to be created in contemporary Norwegian art".