Asta Nørregaard

Asta Nørregaard
Asta Nørregaard
	Self-portrait
Born	August 13, 1853; Oslo, Norway
Died	March 23, 1933 (aged 79); Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Known for	Painting

Asta Nørregaard (13 August 1853 – 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian painter who is best known for her portraits.^[1]

Biography

Nørregaard was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Hans Peter Nørregaard (1818–1872) and Elise Jacobine Hesselberg (1821–1853). She and an older sister were orphaned early and both remained unmarried. Asta Nørregaard received her early education at the Knud Bergslien painting school together with Harriet Backer. She was a pupil of Eilif Peterssen in Munich from 1875 to 1878. She studied in Paris during 1879. Nørregaard held solo exhibitions at Blomqvist Kunsthandel in 1893, 1903, 1913 and 1925. She was also a frequent exhibitor at group exhibitions: Salon de Paris in 1881 and 1882, and world exhibitions in Antwerp in 1885 and Paris 1889. She received the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1920. Her work is exhibited at the Munch Museum, Oslo City Museum, University of Oslo and National Gallery in Oslo.^[2] ^[3] Nørregaard was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850-1900.^[4]

Selected works

Paul Breder, 1879
Anette Birch 1882
L'attente de Christ 1881
Maggie Plahte, 1881
Maggie reiseklar, 1881
Asta Norregaard Fransk kjokkeninterior, 1881
Villiers-le-Bel, 1881
Carl Paul Caspari, 1885
Edvard Munch, 1885
Gisle Johnson, 1885
Musikkinteriør, 1885
Bondekone fra Normandie, ca. 1887–89
Angelo, 1888
Lesende dame ved vindu, 1888
Midnattsmesse i et fransk kloster, 1888–89
Elisabeth Fearnley, 1892
Martine Cappelen Hjort, 1897
Dagny Kiær, 1899
Niels August Andresen Butenschøn, 1900
Marie Andresen Butenschøn, 1904
Harald Løvenskiold, 1905

Portraits

References

^ "Asta Nørregaard". Store norske Leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
^ "Om Blomqvist". Blomqvist Kunsthandel. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
^ Anne Wichstrøm. "Asta Nørregaard". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
^ Madeline, Laurence (2017). Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300223934.