Oda Krohg
Oda Krohg, Pauline Christine Lasson actually Othilia ( born June 11, 1860 in Åsgårdstrand, † October 19th 1935 in Oslo) was a Norwegian landscape and portrait painter.
Family
Othilia Pauline Christine, called Oda, was the second daughter of the government lawyer Christian Otto Carl Lasson (1830-1893) and his wife Alexandra Cathrine Munthe af Morgenstierne ( 1842-1925 ). Your maternal grandmother, Anastasia Sergiewna Soltikoff, was a Russian princess. Oda grew up in a conservative- liberal home, along with eight sisters and two brothers. Two of her sisters were the wives of famous artists:
- Alexandra Lasson (1862-1955) and Fritz Thaulow married in 1886;
- Sofie Elisabeth Lasson and Holger Drachmann (1873-1917) married in 1903.
The sister Caroline Lasson joined by her stage name Bokken Lasson (1871-1970) as a cabaret artist and singer.
Life
In 1881 married Oda Krohg and the entrepreneur Jørgen Engelhardt ( 1852-1921 ). The couple had two children. However, they soon realized that they did not want to lead the life and separated after two years of marriage. Oda moved into a home of their own and became a student at the painter Erik Werenskiold and later by Christian Krohg. The painting and life with the artists specific henceforth their way forward. Together with Edvard Munch Oda was a central figure of the artist - bohemian in Christiania and was regarded as the bohemian princess. The group of artists included, among other things, Christian Krohg, Jappe Nilssen, Hans Jæger and Gunnar Heiberg.
In October 1888, she married her former teacher, Christian Krohg, from the common connection went two children, Nana (* 1885) and Per ( 1889-1965 ), out. In the 1890s, the family moved to Berlin Krohg. 1901 Oda went on a study trip to France, where she in Paris Montparnasse had a studio later. Within a short time they made some acquaintances with the most famous artists of the city, including Henri Matisse. In 1903 Krohg exhibited in the Salon de Paris, and a year later their first exhibition at the Salon d' Automne was held at the Oda regularly involved until 1909. During this time they went a love relationship a with the poet and art critic Jappe Nilssen. Oda left him and returned to her husband. A little later they returned to Oslo.
Oda Krohg died on 19 October 1935 in Oslo from the effects of flu and was buried in the cemetery Vår Frelsers Gravlund.