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Harriet Backer
Norwegian Painter, 1845-1932
Norwegian painter. In the 1860s and early 1870s she took lessons in drawing and painting in Christiania (now Oslo) and also travelled extensively in Europe with her sister Agathe, a composer and pianist. She copied works in major museums and took occasional art lessons; she later considered this experience to have been of fundamental importance to her artistic development. Little Red Riding Hood (1872; Oslo, N.G.) is impressive in technique, and the early portrait of her sister, Agathe Backer-Grendahl (1874; Holmestrand, Komm.), shows a refined colour scheme. At the age of nearly 30 Backer decided to train professionally as a painter and in 1874 went to Munich. She was never attached to a particular institution, but the influence of her friend the artist Eilif Peterssen was crucial to her development. In Munich she made a thorough study of perspective, which formed a secure basis for her later work.
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Painting ID:: 23168
Blue Interior (nn02)
1883 Oil on canvas,
33 1/16 x 26'' Nasjonalgalleriet,Oslo
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Painting ID:: 23169
Uvdal Stave Church (nn02)
1909
Oil on canvas,45 1/8 x 53 1/8'' Rasmus Meyers Collection,Bergen Norway
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Painting ID:: 56337
by lamplight
mk247
1890,oil on canvas,21x26 in,55x66.5 cm,rasmus meyers samlinger,bergen,norway
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Painting ID:: 92347
Alteret i Tanum kirke
Oil painting.
Painted 1891
ttd
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Painting ID:: 95812
Kolbotnstua
Oil painting.
Painted 1896.
cjr
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Harriet Backer
Norwegian Painter, 1845-1932
Norwegian painter. In the 1860s and early 1870s she took lessons in drawing and painting in Christiania (now Oslo) and also travelled extensively in Europe with her sister Agathe, a composer and pianist. She copied works in major museums and took occasional art lessons; she later considered this experience to have been of fundamental importance to her artistic development. Little Red Riding Hood (1872; Oslo, N.G.) is impressive in technique, and the early portrait of her sister, Agathe Backer-Grendahl (1874; Holmestrand, Komm.), shows a refined colour scheme. At the age of nearly 30 Backer decided to train professionally as a painter and in 1874 went to Munich. She was never attached to a particular institution, but the influence of her friend the artist Eilif Peterssen was crucial to her development. In Munich she made a thorough study of perspective, which formed a secure basis for her later work.
. Related Artists to Harriet Backer: | Carel Jacobus Behr | Bard, James | Annie Louise Swynnerton | Alfred Ordway | Samuel King |
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