Bjarne Rise (June 18, 1904 in

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– September 30, 1984 in

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) was a Norwegian

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Biography

Background

Bjarne Rise was born in

of Norwegian parents. When he was five years old, the family moved back to his home village of

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where he had his upbringing. Autumn of 1925, he moved to Oslo where he first went on the

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. After that he studied at the

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first in 1927 and later, in 1932-1933 with

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, in 1935-1936 with Georg Jacobsen. He was also a time, after completing the program at the Art Academy, trained by Aksel Jørgensen of

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Style

The artist Bjarne Rise regarded as Norway's first

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. Periodically, he cultivated

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one but mostly, his art was figurative in character. Both

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figure photos and

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expresses a soft lyrical emotion through a bright palette and a conscious constructive structure which shows the influence of George Jacobsen. He was also influenced by the Danish painter Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen.

Works

Rise is best known for his altarpieces and three

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s such as the altarpieces in the Follafoss Church, (1955), Fagerhaug Chapel, (1960) and Ringkollen Chapel, 1981), and

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s in Glomfjord church, 1957 ). In addition to

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are wooden reliefs and he worked with

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in Oslo owns a wooden relief and 8 paintings by him. In 1955 he published a book about the artist

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Works (selection)

Public Buildings (decoration)

* "Veronika-cloth," Altarpiece in

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(tapestry) * "Christ and the three apostles" altarpiece Follafoss Church. * "Five Wise and five bad Virgins" on organ loft and altarpiece in the

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(painted wooden reliefs and pictorial woven carpets). * "The Risen Christ," Moss, pictorial woven carpets in hospital. * Trilogy "With their own hands - Spring, Summer, Autumn", three pictorial woven carpets in "Norske Folk" gården, Oslo. * "Indian Dream", painting of a house in

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. * "The Sower" in Opdal Sparebank (painted wooden reliefs).

Cartons for woven carpets

* "Indian dream" * "The Virgin Mary of her three Suitor," after an ancient

antependium An ''antependium'' (from Latin ''ante-'' and ''pendēre'', "to hang before"; : ''antependia''), also known as a pulpit fall, parament or hanging, or, when speaking specifically of the hanging for the altar, an altar frontal (Latin: ''pallium al ...

* "Golden Bird" * "Princess, which no one could silence" * "Get rid of animals" * "Maternité"

Exhibitions (selection)

* 1928: Represented at the exhibition in the Norwegian Art Association * 1935: Represented the surrealist painting exhibition in Copenhagen * 1937: Represented the

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in Paris * 1951: Invited participant in the exhibition of visual art along with

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and

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. Rise got good reviews. * 1952: Participants at the exhibition "Young Norwegian art" in Copenhagen. * 1955: Attendance at the summer exhibition "13 Painters" in

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(Oslo). * 1957: Participants at an exhibition in Gothenburg * 1968: Exhibition of drawings together with Håkon Stenstadvold and Ole Mæhle in the Artists' Association. * 1982: The exhibition "Norwegian Pictorial Woven Carpets" with tapestries of cartons by Bjarne Rise in

. * 1989: Retrospective memorial exhibition in Trondheim Art Association - Trøndelag Art Gallery. The exhibition was shown in Oppdal by Oppdal Art Association same year.

References

External links

Bjarne Rise at Selbu Bygdemuseum
(in Norwegian)

(in Norwegian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rise, Bjarne 1904 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni Norwegian expatriates in the United States 20th-century Norwegian male artists