Dina Aschehoug (12 April 1861 – 17 November 1956) was a

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Biography

Dina Engel Laurentse Aschehoug was born at

Rakkestad Rakkestad is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad. It is divided into the parishes of Rakkestad, Degernes, and Os. The municipality is the county's second largest b ...

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county, Norway. She was the daughter of Karen Margitte Danielsen (1834- 1904) and Thorkild Johansen Aschehoug (1830-1902). Her father was a parish priest and brother-in-law of

Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug (27 June 1822 – 20 January 1909) was a prominent Norwegian professor, legal scholar, historian and social economist. He also served as a conservative politician and Member of the Norwegian Parliament. Biography Tor ...

. She studied at

Vilhelm Kyhn Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn (March 30, 1819 – May 11, 1903) was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough. Even though he outliv ...

's drawing school in

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between 1880 and 1882, and then became a student of

Eilif Peterssen Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. Biography Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Osl ...

and

Erik Werenskiold Erik Theodor Werenskiold (11 February 1855 – 23 November 1938) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of ''Norske Folkeeventyr'', and his illustrations for t ...

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(now Oslo). She later studied at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

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and at the Art Academy School for Women (''Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinder'') in

. In accordance with her parents wishes, she sought employment as a teacher because her father thought the art was an insecure way of life. For twenty years, she was a teacher at Sylow's School for Girls and the Women's Industrial School in Christiania (''Statens lærerhøgskole i forming''). In the years between 1911 and 1924 she lived in Copenhagen.

Works

Dina Aschehoug painted in particular interiors and

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

s, and she created several

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

s for Norwegian churches. In 1886, she painted the altarpiece of Rakkestad Church in

and in 1889 she delivered the altarpiece to Hedenstad Church in

Lågendalen Lågendalen ( en, Lågen Valley) is a valley located in eastern Norway. Lågendalen forms the lower part of the valley through which the Numedalslågen flows between Kongsberg in Buskerud and Larvik in Vestfold. North of Kongsberg, the valley is ...

. In 1897, her painting of Karen Stabell was entered at the

General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm The General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm of 1897 ( sv, Allmänna konst- och industriutställningen) also known as Stockholm Exhibition or Stockholm World's Fair (''Stockholmsutställningen'') was a World's Fair staged in 1897 in Stoc ...

(''Stockholmsutstillingen 1897''). In 1906 she painted an altarpiece for Komnes Church in

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud, Viken county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production ...

. The altarpiece was subsequently moved to the nearby Efteløt Church.

References

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