Elisabeth Dored

Elisabeth Sofie Dored (born March 22, 1908 in Idd , Norway ; † September 6, 1972 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian painter and writer .

Life

Dored was the daughter of Major Birger Braadland (1879–1960) and his wife Ragna Vogt Stang (1881–1972).

At the age of twenty, Dored traveled alone to France in 1928 to train as a painter in Paris . At the Académie Scandinave she became a student of Henry de Waroquier and Othon Friesz, among others . She was taught at the Académie l'Art moderne . Despite initial successes, which were also shown in some exhibitions, Dored soon neglected painting and began to write.

In 1931 Dored returned to Oslo and tried again to succeed as a painter. At Statens kunstakademi she became a student of Halfdan Strøm . At this art academy she made the acquaintance of John Dored (1881–1954), a cameraman from Latvia , whom she married in 1935. In the same year she accompanied her husband to Vienna . The couple stayed there until 1954, only interrupted by extensive trips through the Balkans, Egypt and Ethiopia.

When her husband John died in Vienna on September 22, 1954, Dored returned to Norway and settled in Halden. She died at the age of 64 in Oslo, where she found her final resting place.

Honors

• 1964 Bokhandler prizes for Den fønikiske trappen

Works (selection)

as a painter

• Portraits
• Still life

as an author

• Bust the føniskiske . 1963.
  • German: The Phoenician stairs . Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 1981. ISBN 3-8118-2149-0 .
• Jeg elsket Tiberius . 1964.
  • German: I loved Tiberius .
• For meg er jorden round . Oslo 1955.
• Pilatus and Nasareeren . Oslo 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ today part of Halden (Norway)