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Ellen Iden
Ellen Nordan Lund Iden (January 24, 1897 – November 12, 1961) was a Norwegian painter known for her landscapes, pictures of flowers, interior paintings, and portraits using finely tuned coloring.Anny B. Fremmerlid''Store norske leksikon'': Ellen Nordan Lund Iden./ref> Biography Ellen Nordan Lund Iden was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of Major Ivar Johannessen Lund (1861–1936) and the painter Jacobine Nordan Lund (1867–1941).Sonja Hagemann''Norsk kunstnerleksikon'': Ellen Nordan Lund Iden./ref> She studied under Othon Friesz at the former ''Académie Moderne'' in Paris in 1920, and then at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts under Axel Revold from 1931 to 1932. She also studied under Leon Aurdal. She married the sculptor Johannes Iden in 1938, who died in the sinking of the M/S ''Ronda'' one year later. Her first solo exhibition coincided with a memorial exhibition for him, held at the Artists' Association Gallery () in 1943. She achieved a major bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Nordan Lund Iden IKL
Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen Alaküla (1927–2011), Estonian actress * Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893), American poet *Ellen Allien (born 1969), German electronic musician and music producer *Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833-1898), Swedish feminist *Ellen Andersen (1898–1989), Danish museum curator *Ellen Anderson (born 1959), American politician *Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer *Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist *Ellen S. Baker (born 1953), American physician and astronaut *Ellen Barkin (born 1954), American actress *Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet and author *Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837–1926), social reformer and art teacher *Ellen Bontje (born 1958), Dutch equestrian *Ellen Burka (1921–2016), Dutch and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Jerven
Ivar Jerven (June 21, 1924 – April 24, 1994) was a Norwegian graphic artist, painter, and drawer. Biography Jerven was born at Tune in Østfold, Norway. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1943 to 1947. He then studied for three years under Per Krohg at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (from 1943 to 1947), after which landscape painting became his dominant means of expression. Until 1960 he mostly worked as a graphic artist, drawer, and book illustrator. The motifs in his works were taken from Østfold county, Oslo, and Southern Norway. Dramatic pictures with the ravages of winter storms became a popular motif for him.Opstad, Gunvald. 1991. ''Sørlandet og malerne''. Oslo: Aschehoug, p. 211. He also painted poetic pictures of trees, often fragile and bare, with an emphasis on structure and rhythm. His color scheme was the initially dark, with green, ocher, rust red, and slate blue as most prominent. Later his palette became br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word '' computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Norway Exhibition
The Southern Norway Exhibition ( no, Sørlandsutstillingen) is an annual traveling exhibition of Norwegian contemporary art. It is open to visual artists from Southern Norway (Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties) plus Telemark county. The first Southern Norway Exhibition opened on January 4, 1969. The exhibition was set up at the initiative of the painters Bjørn Krogstad and Øyvind Brune in 1968. After making thorough preparations, they contacted the Kristiansand Art Association ( no, Christianssands Kunstforening) and by May 1968 had arranged the rules for how the exhibition should be organized and carried out the following year. Among other accomplishments, Krogstad and Brune established an economic foundation for the exhibition by having it included in the budget of the Norway Arts Council.Ovva (pseudonym). 1969. "Merkedag for sørlandsk kunstliv." ''Fedrelandsvennen'' (January 3). According to the statute of the Southern Norway Exhibition, the exhibition's founders are th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Hiorth
Agnes Hiorth (5 May 1899 – 30 November 1984) was a Norwegian painter. Her art was characterized by impressionistic broad brush and harmoniously palette of landscapes, as well as a wide range of cultivated and accurate portraits. Biography Agnes Hiorth was born in Kristiania (now Oslo). She was the daughter of Adam Severin Hiorth (1864–1949) and Alice Mitchell Homan (1863–1953). She began her artistic training as a student of the painter Harald Brun. She debuted at the National Autumn Exhibition in 1922. She also studied with the painters Pola Gauguin Pola Gauguin (6 December 1883 – 2 July 1961) was a Danish-Norwegian painter, art critic and biographer. Biography Paul Rollon Gauguin was born in Paris, France. He was the youngest of five children born to the famed French artist Paul Gauguin ... (1918–1920), Axel Revold (1925–1926), and Georg Jacobsen (1935–1936). She painted numerous portraits, and among her best-known works are portraits of royal family members. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low stack (geology), sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. They are often used as resting places by animals such as Pinniped, seals and seabird, birds. Etymology The term ''skerry'' is derived from the Old Norse ', which means a rock in the sea (which in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *''sker''-, "cut", in the sense of a rock cut off from the land). The Old Norse term ' was brought into the English language via the Scots language word spelled or . It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' words for ''skerry'' – Icelandic language, Icelandic, fo, sker, da, skær, sv, skär, no, skjær / skjer, found also in german: Schäre, fi, kari, et, skäär, lv, šēra, lt, Šcheras and russian: шхеры (). In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as ', e.g. Sula Sgeir, in Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Nergaard
Liv Nergaard (April 17, 1924 – July 25, 2016)''Universitets- og skoleannaler. Ny række''. 1944, vol. 59, p. 116. was a Norwegian painter, textile artist, and sculptor. She also created portraits and produced puppet performances for educational use. Biography Nergaard was born in Oppegård in Akershus county, the daughter of Tordis Nergaard and Eivin Nickelsen. She attended the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1946, and Bergen Teacher Training College () from 1971 to 1972. In addition, she was a visiting student at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1952 to 1953) and at the Illegal Academy () from 1943 to 1945. In 1961 she settled in Flosta together with her husband, the sculptor Finn Henrik Bodvin. During these years, she worked actively as a sculptor; among other things, she participated twice in the Autumn Exhibition (, in 1970 and 1976) and six times in the Southern Norway Exhibition (, betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Henrik Bodvin
Finn Henrik Bodvin (October 12, 1928 – August 12, 2002) was a Norwegian sculptor. Biogeraphy Bodvin was born in Trondheim, Norway. Bodvin received his art education at the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University in Detroit (1950), Trondheim Art School (now part of the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art) (1952), Chelsea College of Arts in London (1952), Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (1952–1953) and Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts under Per Palle Storm (1953–1956). He worked with various types of materials, from clay, stone, and wood to sculptures in copper and steel. His manner of expression varied from figurative sculpture with the human body as a source of inspiration to abstract and non-figurative works in steel and other metals. Most of his sculptures are formed of welded copper and steel, a technique he has achieved by working with scrap iron. He participated in a number of solo and group exhibits in Norway and abroad, and, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Cappelen
Bodil Cappelen (born April 26, 1930) is a Norwegian painter, textile artist, and book illustrator. She has also written children's books. Early life Cappelen was born in Stavanger, the daughter of Johan Munthe Cappelen from Oslo and Edith Heiberg from Leikanger. Her father was a judge and was known for his dissenting opinion in the acquittal of Police Chief Knut Rød after the Second World War. Bodil grew up with two sisters: Lotte Cappelen Thiis and Eli Heiberg. She attended the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1948 to 1951. Life and work Cappelen's first marriage was to the author and painter Finn Strømsted. The couple had two children, Aili Strømsted and Rune Cappelen Strømsted. From 1975 to 1994, Cappelen first lived with and then married the poet Olav H. Hauge in Ulvik in Hardanger.Thresher, Tanya. 2004. ''Twentieth-Century Norwegian Writers'', volume 297. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale, p. 149. They were married on January 27, 1978. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
