Karl Edvard Diriks (9 January 1855 – 17 March 1930) was a Norwegian painter.

Biography

He was born in Christiania (now Oslo, Norway) to Christian Ludvig Diriks and Benedicte Henriette Munch. He was a grandson of government minister

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(1775–1837) and a nephew of maritime officer and lighthouse director Carl Frederik Diriks (1814–1895). He began to study in Germany where he became acquainted with Norwegian and German painters

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and

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. He first studied to become an architect at

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from 1874 to 1875. He accompanied Krohg and Klinger to Berlin in the autumn of 1875 as a student at the

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. In the autumn of 1879 he settled in Christiania. On his first trip to Paris in 1882–83, he had become acquainted with Impressionism. He married in 1892, to Swedish-born artist and sculptor Anna Diriks (1870-1932) and settled in

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. They resided in France between 1899 and 1921. They settled in 1922 at Drøbak. He is known for his naturalist outdoor paintings of clouds, rain squalls, snow flurry, storms and rough seas. He is represented with thirteen works in the

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, in a number of other Norwegian galleries, and in galleries in France and Germany. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav, and Officer of the French

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in 1920.

Gallery

File:Karl Edvard Diriks - Høner, Frankrike (1914).jpg, ''Chickens, France'' (1914) Image:Karl Edvard Diriks - Apres l'orage (1904).jpg, ''After the Storm'' (1904) Image:Karl Edvard Diriks - Isløsning.jpg, ''Thawing Ice'' Image:Karl Edvard Diriks Fra Akershus OB.01383.jpg, ''From

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'' (1881) Image:Karl Edvard Diriks Fra Frøensjordene OB.00396.jpg, ''From Frøensjordene'' (1880)

References

1855 births 1930 deaths Artists from Oslo Norwegian expatriates in France 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Norwegian portrait painters Norwegian landscape painters Officiers of the Légion d'honneur People from Frogn 19th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{norway-painter-stub