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

Biography

Asta Norregaard Fransk kjokkeninterior 1881

Nørregaard was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Hans Peter Nørregaard (1818–1872) and Elise Jacobine Hesselberg (1821–1853). She and an older sister were orphaned early and both remained unmarried. Asta Nørregaard received her early education at the

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painting school together with

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. She was a pupil of

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from 1875 to 1878. She studied in

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during 1879. Nørregaard held solo exhibitions at Blomqvist Kunsthandel in 1893, 1903, 1913 and 1925. She was also a frequent exhibitor at group exhibitions:

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in 1881 and 1882, and world exhibitions in

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in 1885 and Paris 1889. She received the

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in gold in 1920. Her work is exhibited at the

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and

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in Oslo. Nørregaard was included in the 2018 exhibit ''Women in Paris 1850-1900''.

Selected works

* ''Paul Breder'', 1879 * ''Anette Birch'' 1882 * ''L'attente de Christ'' 1881 * ''Maggie Plahte'', 1881 * ''Maggie reiseklar'', 1881 * ''Asta Norregaard Fransk kjokkeninterior'', 1881 * ''Villiers-le-Bel'', 1881 * ''Carl Paul Caspari'', 1885 * ''Edvard Munch'', 1885 * ''Gisle Johnson'', 1885 * ''Musikkinteriør'', 1885 * ''Bondekone fra Normandie'', ca. 1887–89 * ''Angelo'', 1888 * ''Lesende dame ved vindu'', 1888 * ''Midnattsmesse i et fransk kloster'', 1888–89 * ''Elisabeth Fearnley'', 1892 * ''Martine Cappelen Hjort'', 1897 * ''Dagny Kiær'', 1899 * ''Niels August Andresen Butenschøn'', 1900 * ''Marie Andresen Butenschøn'', 1904 * ''Harald Løvenskiold'', 1905

Portraits

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1915

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Norregaard, Asta 1853 births 1933 deaths Artists from Oslo 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold 20th-century Norwegian women painters 19th-century Norwegian women painters