Harald Sohlberg

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Self-portrait , oil, 1897
Winter night in Rondane , oil, 1913
Street view of Røros , Oil, 1902

Harald Oskar Sohlberg (born September 29, 1869 in Kristiania , † June 19, 1935 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist .

biography

Sohlberg was saved as the eighth of eleven children of the fur trader Johan Sohlberg and his wife Johanne Lardsdatter Viker in Kristiania. He wanted to become an artist early on. However, his father insisted on a solid craft training. At the age of sixteen, Sohlberg began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with Wilhelm Krogh. In 1889 a friend of the Sohlberg family recognized the talent and advised him to take up artistic training. He began to take lessons at the Royal Drawing School in Kristiania and studied painting with Eilif Peterssen and Erik Werenskiold , with Kristian Zahrman in Copenhagen and in 1896 for a year at the Weimar Art Academy .

In between, Sohlberg completed his military service in 1892. Two years later it got its first attention through a sale to the National Gallery . In 1895 he received a scholarship to stay in Paris. In 1901 he married Lili Hennum. Further purchases by the Nationalgalerie followed. In 1902 the couple moved to Røros and after a trip to Venice in 1910 to Skovly. In addition to painting, graphic work was an important source of income for Sohlberg. After 1920 he became increasingly sicker. He died of cancer at the age of 65.

In 2019, the Norwegian Post issued special stamps on the occasion of Sohlberg's 150th birthday.

plant

Harald Sohlberg is assigned to the neo-romantic era . The mountains around Rondane were an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his numerous studies and watercolors, which, however, only found their way into his landscape paintings years later. His street scenes were mainly created in Røros. In the Norwegian art scene, Sohlberg was the artist who combined elements of symbolism and mysticism with his pantheistic views in his work . While he found little understanding for his work from his fellow artists at first, he received the first positive response from critics and collectors after an exhibition in 1914.

Exhibition in Germany

The Wiesbaden Museum offered from 12 July to 27 October 2019 150. to Sohlberg's birthday, the first exhibition to his work on the European continent. 80 of his works were shown, including 60 paintings.

literature

  • Oivind Storm Bjerke: Edvard Munch, Harald Sohlberg - Landscapes of the Mind. University Press of New England, 1996, ISBN 978-1-887149-01-3 .
  • National Museum Oslo (ed.): Harald Sohlberg. Infinite landscapes. Hirmer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-3086-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
  2. ^ Norway - Postage Stamps - 2019 - The 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Harald Sohlberg, 1869-1935. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Art Archives (English)
  4. ↑ https://museum-wiesbaden.de/mittsommernacht

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personal data
SURNAME Sohlberg, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sohlberg, Harald Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristiania
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1935
Place of death Oslo