Halvdan Holbø (4 May 1907 in

Vågå Vågå () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vågåmo. Other village areas in Vågå include Lalm and Besshe ...

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The c ...

– 21 September 1995) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in

as a son of

Kristen Holbø Kristen Holbø (13 September 1869 – 19 October 1953) was a Norway, Norwegian Painting, painter and illustrator, most noted for his landscapes. Biography He was born on Sygard Holbø in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway. He studied under Knud Be ...

. He studied under

Søren Onsager Søren Onsager (6 October 1878 – 28 November 1946) was a Norwegian painter. Onsager was born at Holmestrand in Vestfold, Norway. His parents were Martin Onsager (1849–1926) and Laura Dorothea Christensen (1858–1934). His father operated ph ...

, Anders C. Svarstad,

Halfdan Strøm Halfdan Strøm (4 November 1863 – 28 March 1949) was a Norwegian painter and an early representative of realism in Norwegian painting. He attended the Royal Drawing School in Christiania (nor Oslo). In 1883, he debuted at the Industria ...

and Jean Heiberg, and spent time in

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. He is represented with five landscape paintings in the

National Gallery of Norway The National Gallery ( no, Nasjonalgalleriet) is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. , the admission cost is 100 Norwegian kroner. History It was establish ...

References

1907 births 1995 deaths People from Vågå 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub