Harald Sohlberg

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

Biography

Sohlberg was recovered as the eighth of eleven children of the fur trader Johan Sohlberg and his wife Johanne Lardsdatter Viker in Christiania. He had the desire to be artists early. His father insisted, however, on a solid craft training. At sixteen Sohlberg began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter Wilhelm Krogh. 1899 saw a friend of the family and advised Sohlberg's talent to an artistic education. He began teaching at the Royal School of Drawing in Christiania to take and studied painting with Eilif Peterssen and Erik Werenskiold in Kristian Zahrman in Copenhagen and 1896 for a year at the Art Academy of Weimar.

Between 1892 graduated Sohlberg his military service. Two years later, he got through a sale to the National Gallery first attention. In 1895 he received a scholarship for a stay in Paris. In 1901 he married Lili Hennum. Further acquisitions by the National Gallery followed. 1902 the couple moved to Røros and after a trip to Venice in 1910 to Skovly. Besides painting was Sohlberg for the graphical work an important source of income. After 1920 he became increasingly ill. He died at the age of 66 from cancer.

Work

Harald Sohlberg is associated with the era of neo-romanticism. The mountains around Rondane was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his numerous studies and watercolors, the only years later were incorporated, however, in his landscape paintings for him. His street scenes were filmed primarily in Røros. In the Norwegian art scene was Sohlberg the artist who combined elements of symbolism and mysticism with its pantheistic views in his work. While he first little understanding of his work took place at his fellow artists, he was awarded after an exhibition in 1914 the first positive Resonenz of critics and collectors.