Gabriel Kielland (6 July 1871 – 28 September 1960) was a Norwegian painter, architect and designer.''Gabriel Kielland'' (Store norske leksikon)
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Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

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. Kielland is one of the many notable alumni of the

Trondheim Katedralskole Trondheim Cathedral School ( no, Trondheim katedralskole, Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Nidrosiensis'') is an upper secondary school located next to the Nidaros Cathedral in the center of Trondheim, Norway. History There is great dispute regarding ...

. Kielland later studied to become an architect in

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and then went to

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in 1892 to study painting. He was a pupil in

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during 1894 and later studied with

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. From 1896 he worked for a time as an architect in Trondheim, in a rigorous and constructive

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style, but also painted landscapes, portraits and several altarpieces. As an architect he designed, among other things, Trondheim electricity primary station at Øvre Leirfoss, Finnes orphanage and Dr. Cureas clinic in Trondheim. He later became a teacher of freehand drawing at

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in Trondheim 1899–1902. Kielland is best known as the creator of the Rose Window (''Rosevinduet i Nidarosdomen'') in the

Nidaros Cathedral Nidaros Cathedral ( no, Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Norway cathedral located in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county. It is built over the burial site of Olav II of Norway, King Olav II (c. 995–1030, reigned 1015–102 ...

in Trondheim. In 1908 he won the competition for the stained glass windows for the reconstruction of the Nidaros Cathedral's southern gable. In addition, Kielland delivered proposals to design all of the church windows and received the commission to create the stained glass windows. The paintings are iconographic imagery which were produced in collaboration with Oluf Kolsrud (1885–1945), professor of church history. The Rose Window motif faces west into the sunset and symbolizes doomsday. The rose window's structural layout followed the design by cathedral architect

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, and the diameter is built up around an eightfold symmetry with the innermost parts proportioned such that the diameter is formed of 16 sheets. The painted glass in the window consists of over 10,000 pieces. The Rose Window was presented as a gift from the women of Norway for the anniversary of the death of St. Olav in 1930 and is regarded as Kielland's masterpiece.

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Some famous former students at Trondheim Katedralskole
* Eyewitness Travel Guides: Norway. 2003. p. 193.
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1871 births 1960 deaths Art Nouveau architects People educated at the Trondheim Cathedral School People from Trondheim {{Norway-artist-stub

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