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Norwegian Women Painters: 1893 Exposition Compiled by K. L. Nichols

Norwegian Women Painters

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Harriet Backer
Mimi Falsen
Kitty Kielland
Oda Krohg
Helga Marie Ring
Agnes Steineger

Harriet Backer (1845 - 1932)
 

By Lamplight 1890--representative work

Interior fra flyen--representative work

Landscape--representative work
 

From Tanum Kirke (1891)--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Two of  Norway's greatest women artists were Harriet Backer (impressionist painter) and her sister Agathe Backer Grøndahl (pianist and composer).  Born into a prosperous Oslo family in business,  Harriet Backer studied in all-female private art schools and later in Munich.  Evidently she was known for her interiors and her ecclesiastical pictures of the old Tannum Church in Baerum, Norway.  The art school she established in 1889--Pultosten in Oslo--became the forerunner of the National Art Academy.

Biography (in Norwegian); biography of her sister Agathe Backer Grøndahl.
Blue Interior 1883; Blue Interior
Paesaggio da Bærum nei pressi di Oslo (Landscape from Búrum, Oslo) 1890; Oslo Burum’dan Manzara
Thorvald Boecks bibliotek; The Library of Thorvald Boeck.
Solitude ; Solitude
A Lesson hearing in Eggedal; Homework in Eggedal
Interiør fra Vendelsborg, Vollen i Asker 1924
Four images
Several landscapes
Interiør med figurer
I en bondestue

Mimi (Marie Bolette Wilhelmine) Falsen (Gjerdrum) (1861 - 1957)
 

Self-portrait--representative work

Kongs voll dovre--representative work
 

In Thought (image unavailable)--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 World's Fair

Mimi Falsen was a Norwegian artist who studied art in Stockholm under Anders Zorn and in Paris under Puvis de Chavannes.  No other information available online.

Biography (in Norwegian)
Gårdstun

(Christine) Kitty Lange Kielland (1843 - 1914)

Blomstereng 1877--representative work
 

Sandiken--representative work
 

Torvmyr--representative work

Fra Frankrike--representative work
 

Interiør med rød stol-- representative work

Atelier interiør -- representative work

Summer's Night 1886--exhibited at 1893 Exposition
 

The Christiannia Fjord  and An Old Bridge
 in Norway (images unavailable)--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Born in Stavanger, Norway, Kitty Kielland began studying art at age thirty in Karlsruhe, followed by further training in Munich and Paris where she became close friends with impressionist artist Harriet Backer.  Kielland is known for her realistic paintings of the Norwegian coastal region called Jæren.  Her brother, Alexander Kielland, was a well-known author.

Biography (in Norwegian)
Peat-bog on Júren Plain 1882
Fra Jæren 1904
Hundekjeks
Torvmyr 1901
Torvmyr på Jæren [Peatbog at Jaeren]1882
Halfdan Egedius 1899--scroll down the page
Jærlandskap Lurahammeren, Jotanuten nær Sandnes
Arne Garborg i malerinnas atelier i Paris
Atelier Interior 1883
Strikkekvinne 1885
Fra Frankrike 1887
Stilleben 1885
Stilleben

Oda (Othilia) (Lasson) Krohg  (1860 - 1935)

En abonnent på Aftenposten [The Evening Post]
 1887-- representative work

Summer Evening and Sun Spots (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Born in Oslo, Norway, Oda Krogh  studied art in Paris and married artist Christian Krohg.  They were members of the radical socialist "Kristiania-bohemene," a group of upper-class intellectuals, writers, and artists who dealt with controversial issues like urban poverty, prostitution, and sexual bigotry.

Biography (in Norwegian)
Short biography (in Norwegian)
By Christiana Fjord 1886
Japansk lykt
Portrait
Portrait

Helga Marie Ring (Reusch) (1865 - 1944)
 

Barne folge--representative work
 

Gutt Pa Svaberg--
representative work
 

Carriage Gentry Passing and Busy (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Helga Ring was a Norwegian artist.  No other information available online in English.

Biography (in Norwegian)
Blind mann
Gutt på svaberg 1886
Barnefølge

Agnes Steineger (1863 - 1965?)
 

Still Life--representative work
 

Portrait --exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
 

Les Nourrissons (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Agnes Steineger was a Norwegian artist.  No other information is available online in English.

Landscape
 

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Text written by K. L. Nichols
 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 03-26-07