Ivar Jerven (June 21, 1924 – April 24, 1994) was a Norwegian graphic artist, painter, and drawer.

Biography

Jerven was born at Tune in

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, Norway. He studied at the

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from 1943 to 1947. He then studied for three years under

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at the

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(from 1943 to 1947), after which landscape painting became his dominant means of expression. Until 1960 he mostly worked as a graphic artist, drawer, and book illustrator. The motifs in his works were taken from

county,

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, and Southern Norway. Dramatic pictures with the ravages of winter storms became a popular motif for him.Opstad, Gunvald. 1991. ''Sørlandet og malerne''. Oslo: Aschehoug, p. 211. He also painted poetic pictures of trees, often fragile and bare, with an emphasis on structure and rhythm. His color scheme was the initially dark, with green, ocher, rust red, and slate blue as most prominent. Later his palette became brighter and more varied and abstract. Jerven took part in the Autumn Exhibition five times between 1946 and 1980. He was selected to display at the Southern Norway Exhibition () six times, with his last appearance in 1976. He also participated in a series of group and solo exhibitions in Norway and abroad. He supplied decorations for the

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, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, the Norwegian Arts Council, and the Municipal Art Collections of Oslo (), among others. His main work is a series of 40 paintings that was purchased by Norsk Hydro. Jerven was part of an artists' colony that developed in Flosta after the

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. Together with artists such as Ellen Iden,

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, Finn Strømsted,

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, and

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, an artistic environment was created that drew inspiration from nature and the

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. In the mid-1960s, six of these artists exhibited at the Skien Art Association () as the Flosta Artists ().Christensen, Linda. 2016. Malerieutstilling med ny vri. ''Arendals Tidende'' (May 2): 17. Jerven was married to the artist Kjerstin Øvrelid. He died in Oslo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jerven, Ivar 1924 births 1994 deaths People from Sarpsborg Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni Norwegian landscape painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 20th-century Norwegian male artists