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Chez moi Painting ID:: 95826
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Harriet Backer Chez moi Oil painting.
Painted 1887.
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Pa blekevollen Painting ID:: 95827
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Harriet Backer Pa blekevollen Oil painting.
Painted 1886-87.
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Bygdeskomakere Painting ID:: 95828
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Harriet Backer Bygdeskomakere cjr
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Kone som syr Painting ID:: 95829
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Harriet Backer Kone som syr Oil painting.
Painted 1890
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Barnedap i Tanum kirke Painting ID:: 95830
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Harriet Backer Barnedap i Tanum kirke Painted 1892.
Oil on canvas.
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Harriet Backer
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Norwegian Painter, 1845-1932
Norwegian painter. In the 1860s and early 1870s she took lessons in drawing and painting in Christiania (now Oslo) and also travelled extensively in Europe with her sister Agathe, a composer and pianist. She copied works in major museums and took occasional art lessons; she later considered this experience to have been of fundamental importance to her artistic development. Little Red Riding Hood (1872; Oslo, N.G.) is impressive in technique, and the early portrait of her sister, Agathe Backer-Grendahl (1874; Holmestrand, Komm.), shows a refined colour scheme. At the age of nearly 30 Backer decided to train professionally as a painter and in 1874 went to Munich. She was never attached to a particular institution, but the influence of her friend the artist Eilif Peterssen was crucial to her development. In Munich she made a thorough study of perspective, which formed a secure basis for her later work. |
Related Artists::. | Edward Henry Corbould,RI,RWS | Pearce, Charles Sprague | Carl Friedrich WilhelmTrautschold | |
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