Marie Løkke also Marie Loekke, Marie Mathiesen (January 9, 1877 - February 29, 1948) was a Norwegian artist. She is most associated with her impressionist landscapes in oil.

Biography

Marie Løkke was born in Christiana, now

Oslo, Norway Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...

. She was the daughter of Charles Victor Fritjof Løkke and Helga Sell. In 1903, she married Finn Mathiesen. She studied at the

Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry The National College of Art and Design ( no, Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole) was established in 1818. In 1996 the National College of Art and Design became part of Oslo National Academy of the Arts The Oslo National Academy of the A ...

and was a student of

Harriet Backer Harriet Backer (21 January 1845 – 25 March 1932) was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally. She is best known for her detailed ...

for a few months. In 1898, she was awarded the Helmstierne-Rosencrones Endowment. From 1900 to 1901, he studied art at

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. She came to the

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in 1902 where she studied with Charles W. Hawthorne at his

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in Provincetown, MA. She divided her artistic career between the United States and Europe throughout her life. She exhibited principally in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, winning prizes on several occasions. Her work was featured at both the

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and at the Chicago Norske Klub. She return to painting in Norway (1917–1919). She painted in

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and

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(1919–1922). From 1921 to 1922 she was a student at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kristiania. She painted in Norway (1922–1926). Her work were exhibited at both the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in

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and at the

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Art Exhibit at the

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in 1925. She also exhibited in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

and

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around 1920–1921 as the Autumn Exhibition (1898–1901, 1917) in Kristiania. ''Marie Lokke''
(Illinois Women Artists Project) Marie Lokke died in 1948 at Oslo, Norway.

References

Other sources

* Nelson, Marion (1993) ''Norwegian-American Painting in the Context of the Immigrant Community and American Art'' (Northfield, MN: The Norwegian-American Historical Association) * Haugan, Reidar Rye (1933) ''Prominent Artists and Exhibits of Their Work in Chicago'' (Chicago Norske Klub. Nordmanns-Forbundet, 24: 371—374, Volume 7)

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lokke, Marie 1877 births 1948 deaths Artists from Oslo 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Artists from Chicago Norwegian emigrants to the United States Norwegian Impressionist painters Norwegian women painters 19th-century Norwegian women artists 20th-century Norwegian women artists