Arne Kavli | Neo-romantic painter

Arne Kavli (1878-1970) was a Norwegian painter.

Kavli was born in Bergen, Norway.

He was the son of actor Kristoffer Kavli (1845-1888) and Agnes Texnes (1851-1937).

He was the brother of actress Aagot Nissen.

He was married three times; in 1903 with Tulla Larsen (1869-1942); in 1911 with Hildur Mønniche (b. 1883) and in 1925 with Thony Drude Isachsen (b. 1897).

Edvard Grieg: "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights.."

• "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted… to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home".

• "Artisti come Bach e Beethoven eressero cattedrali e templi sulle vette. Io ho voluto, come dice Ibsen in un suo dramma, "costruire dimore per gli uomini, dimore in cui essi possano sentirsi felici ed a proprio agio". In altre parole, ho trascritto la musica folcloristica della mia patria, ho cercato di ricavare un'arte nazionale da queste manifestazioni sinora non sfruttate dell'anima norvegese".

Auguste Rodin | Les Mains enlacees | Musée Rodin

Asta Nørregaard | Portrait painter

Asta Nørregaard (13 August 1853 - 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian painter who is best known for her portraits.

Nørregaard was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.

She was the daughter of Hans Peter Nørregaard (1818–1872) and Elise Jacobine Hesselberg (1821–1853).

Eilif Peterssen | Skagen painter

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 - 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter.

He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits.

Biography

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway.

He was the son of Jon Peterssen (1814-1880) and Anne Marie Andersen (1812–1887).

He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.

Hans Gude | Romantic painter

Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825 - August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters.

He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Gude's artistic career was not one marked with drastic change and revolution, but was instead a steady progression that slowly reacted to general trends in the artistic world.

Erik Werenskiold | Realist painter

Erik Theodor Werenskiold (11 February 1855 - 23 November 1938) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.

He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason Heimskringla.

Norwegian Art History and Sitemap

For much of its history Norwegian art is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia. It has, especially since about 1100, been strongly influenced by wider trends in European art.

After World War II, the influence of the United States strengthened substantially. Due to generous art subsidies, contemporary Norwegian art has a high production per capita.

Though usually not especially a major centre for art production or exporter of art, Norway has been relatively successful in keeping its art; in particular, the relatively mild nature of the Norwegian Reformation, and the lack of subsequent extensive rebuilding and redecoration of churches, has meant that with other Scandinavian countries, Norway has unusually rich survivals of medieval church paintings and fittings.

Edvard Munch | The Scream, 1893

Berit Hildre, 1964 | Figurative sculptor

Berit Hildre is a self-taught artist, born in Aalesund, in Norway.

For Berit Hildre, the vocation is late, it is born from his meeting with the painter Louis Tresseras with whom she lives today in France.

- "I'm a Norwegian. Twenty years ago, I left my country to travel. I met Louis on Crete. I began to model the earth, just to try. I continued for pleasure" - Bérit

This exceptional sculptor offers us all the innocence of childhood.

Her delicate and graceful little girls and girls embody the state of grace that is childhood, but also its fragility.