Signe Scheel (1860–1942) was a Norwegian painter.

Biography

Scheel was born 23 November 1860 in

Hamar Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the traditional region of Hedmarken. The town is located on the shores of Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake ...

. She studied with

Christian Krohg Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life. He was the director and ...

in Norway, with

Karl Gussow Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor. Life and work His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he ...

in Berlin, Germany, and with

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at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

in Paris, France. Scheel exhibited frequently at the ''

Høstutstillingen Høstutstillingen or Statens kunstutstilling ( English: ''The Autumn Exhibition'' or ''National Art Exhibition'') is an annual art exhibition in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition is Norway's largest marking of contemporary art and takes place each a ...

''. Her most famous work, ''The Lord's Servant'', is in the National Museum of Art in Oslo. Scheel died 15 December 1942 in

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Legacy

In 2017, the ''Signe Scheel Hall'' was established at Skrivergarden Undesløs, where Scheel lived from 1877 to 1898.

Gallery

File:Lord's servant by Signe Scheel.jpg, ''Lord's Servant'' by Signe Scheel File:Marie Tannæs - malt av Signe Scheel - 1892 - Oslo Museum - OB.00503.jpg, ''Portrait of Marie Tannæs'' (1892), by Signe Scheel

References

External links

images of Signe Scheel's paintings
on artNET
images of Signe Scheel's drawings
at the Nasjonalmuseet, The Fine Art Collections 1860 births 1942 deaths Norwegian women painters 19th-century Norwegian women artists 20th-century Norwegian women artists 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters People from Hamar 20th-century women painters {{norway-painter-stub