Marie Høeg (15 April 1866 – 22 February 1949) was a
Norwegian photographer and
suffragist.
Høeg's published work was traditional in nature, while her private photography, including images of and created with her partner,
Bolette Berg, challenged ideas of gender.
She was the founder of the Horten Discussion Association, which is still active today.
Høeg also started the Horten Branch of the
National Association for Women's Right to Vote, the Horten Women's Council and the Horten Tuberculosis Association.
Biography
Høeg was born in
Langesund on 15 April 1866.
She was a photography student in
Brevik and completed her photography apprenticeship in 1890.
From 1890 to 1895, Høeg lived in
Finland
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, working as a photographer in
Ekenäs and
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Here, she was greatly influenced by the Finnish
women's rights
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movement.
Høeg moved from Finland to
Horten
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in 1895 together with Bolette Berg. Berg was five years younger than Høeg and had trained as a photographer, probably while living in Finland.
[Bonge 1980, pp. 58, 185] Høeg and Berg set up and ran their own photography studio, which was named Berg & Høeg.
Høeg used their studio not only for photography, but also as a meeting place for women interested in feminism and women's suffrage.
Høeg and Berg moved to
Kristiania
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(present-day Oslo) in 1903 and continued working as professional photographers there, mostly producing scenic and portrait post cards.
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The two founded the publishing company Berg og Høghs Kunstforlag A.S., publishing books such as the three-volume ''Norske Kvinder'', which concerns the topic of the history of Norwegian women.
Marie Høeg died in ]Oslo
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on 22 February 1949.
Many of her glass negatives were discovered after her death inside a barn in the 1980s. The barn was on the property of a farm where Berg and Høeg lived at the end of their lives. A series of negatives in a box labelled "private" contained photographs of Berg and Høeg dressed in men's clothes, smoking, and wearing mustaches. These 440 glass negatives are now in the collection of the Preus Museum
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Preus Museum was founded in 1976 by Leif Preus and the members of the Preus family as a private museum. The collection was acquired by the Norwegian government in 199 ...
.
References
Further reading
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External links
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The 'Private' Photos of Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg: Questioning Gender Roles Circa 1900
" Dangerous Minds (27 February 2017). Contains a gallery of Høeg's photographs.
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Bolette Berg (1872-1944) and Marie Høeg (1866-1949)
" Preus Museum website.
Speech by Høeg
(in Norwegian, 1901)
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1866 births
1949 deaths
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