Edele Christiane Margrethe Schreiber (4 October 1822,

Voss Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, Opphe ...

- 23 November 1898,

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) was a Norwegian painter, known primarily for her portraits.

Biography

Her father Peter August Schreiber (1788-1865) was originally from

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, Denmark and came to Norway as a military officer.Peter von Schreiber
@ Onsoski Jaeger Compagni. Her mother Christiane Margrethe Jersin, was the daughter of the Norwegian minister,

Georg Burchard Jersin Georg Burchard Jersin (20 January 1767 – 5 October 1827) was a Norwegian Lutheran minister who served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Georg Burchard Jersin was born at Leikanger in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He ...

. She moved with her family to

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in 1832 and later to

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where her father became a customs agent. In 1852, she went to Copenhagen and was apprenticed to

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.Anne Wichstrøm, Sissel Falck; ''Kvinneliv, kunstnerliv: kvinnelige malere i Norge før 1900''. Oslo: Gyldendal. pgs. 28-31. Later, together with

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, she was one of the first female students admitted to the

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, where she studied with

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from 1854 to 1855. While there, she met the Swedish painter, Sofie Ribbing, who became her life partner. In 1855, she had her first exhibit at the

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. Then, until 1857, she was in Paris, where she worked with

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and briefly formed an artists' colony with Ribbing, Hansteen,

Marie Aarestrup Marie Helene Aarestrup (1826–1919) was a Norwegian artist who specialized in genre and portrait painting. A fine example of her work is a portrait of the Swedish singer Kristina Nilsson which she exhibited in 1865 at the Paris Salon. In later lif ...

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and others. In 1858, she and Hansteen became the first female recipients of the Statens kunstnerstipend, a government study grant. She and Ribbing spent the years 1860-61 in Rome, where they stayed with their friend,

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. She had a major exhibit at the

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. From 1876 to 1877, she was back in Rome with a grant from the "Schäffers Legat" for painters and sculptors. After that, she established herself permanently in Oslo. Among the portraits she completed at that time were those of King Oscar I and his wife, Queen

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References

External links

Christiane Schreiber
@ the Norsk Kunstnerleksikon {{DEFAULTSORT:Schreiber, Christiane 1822 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Norwegian painters 19th-century Norwegian women artists Norwegian portrait painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni People from Voss