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Norwegian painter
Bjarne Rise
Bjarne Rise Photo is owned by Even Rise.
Born (1904-06-18 ) 18 June 1904
USA Minneapolis, USA
Died 30 September 1984(1984-09-30) (aged 80) Nationality
Norwegian Education Statens Kunst- og Håndverkskole Statens Kunstakademi Era 20th century Movement
Surrealism
Bjarne Rise (June 18, 1904 in
Minneapolis ,
United States – September 30, 1984 in
Oslo ) was a Norwegian
painter .
Biography
Background
Bjarne Rise was born in
Minneapolis ,
United States of Norwegian parents. When he was five years old, the family moved back to his home village of
Oppdal where he had his upbringing. Autumn of 1925, he moved to Oslo where he first went on the
Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry . After that he studied at the
Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts first in 1927 and later, in 1932-1933 with
Axel Revold , in 1935-1936 with
Georg Jacobsen .
[1] He was also a time, after completing the program at the Art Academy, trained by Aksel Jørgensen of
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Style
The artist Bjarne Rise regarded as Norway's first
surrealist . Periodically, he cultivated
abstraction one but mostly, his art was
figurative in character. Both
landscape figure photos and
Still life expresses a soft lyrical emotion through a bright palette and a conscious constructive structure which shows the influence of George Jacobsen. He was also influenced by the Danish painter
Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen .
[2]
Works
Rise is best known for his altarpieces and three
reliefs such as the altarpieces in the
Follafoss Church , (1955),
Fagerhaug Chapel , (1960) and
Ringkollen Chapel , 1981), and
murals in
Glomfjord church , 1957 ). In addition to
painting are wooden reliefs and he worked with
tapestries .
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo owns a wooden relief and 8 paintings by him. In 1955 he published a book about the artist
Jean Heiberg .
Works (selection)
Public Buildings (decoration)
"Veronika-cloth," Altarpiece in Gamvik church (tapestry)
"Christ and the three apostles" altarpiece Follafoss Church.
"Five Wise and five bad Virgins" on organ loft and altarpiece in the Namsos church (painted wooden reliefs and pictorial woven carpets).
"The Risen Christ," Moss, pictorial woven carpets in hospital.
Trilogy "With their own hands - Spring, Summer, Autumn", three pictorial woven carpets in "Norske Folk" gården, Oslo.
"Indian Dream", painting,
Rennebu municipality house.
"The Sower" in Opdal Sparebank (painted wooden reliefs).
Cartons for woven carpets
"Indian dream"
"The Virgin Mary of her three Suitor," after an ancient
antependium
"Golden Bird"
"Princess, which no one could silence"
"Get rid of animals"
"Maternité"
Exhibitions (selection)
1928: Represented at the exhibition in the Norwegian Art Association
1935: Represented the surrealist painting exhibition in Copenhagen
1937: Represented the
World Exhibition in Paris
1951: Invited participant in the exhibition of visual art along with
Paul Klee ,
Wassily Kandinsky and
Pablo Picasso . Rise got good reviews.
1952: Participants at the exhibition "Young Norwegian art" in Copenhagen.
1955: Attendance at the summer exhibition "13 Painters" in
Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo).
1957: Participants at an exhibition in Gothenburg
1968: Exhibition of drawings together with Håkon Stenstadvold and Ole Mæhle in the Artists' Association.
1982: The exhibition "Norwegian Pictorial Woven Carpets" with tapestries of cartons by Bjarne Rise in
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design .
1989: Retrospective memorial exhibition in Trondheim Art Association - Trøndelag Art Gallery. The exhibition was shown in Oppdal by Oppdal Art Association same year.
References
External links
International National Artists