Ragnhild Kaarbø (26 December 1889 – 20 August 1949) was a Norwegian painter.
Personal life
She was born at
Harstad in
Troms, Norway. She was one of thirteen children born to
Rikard Kaarbø
Rikard Olai Kaarbø (22 May 1850 – 3 March 1901) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.
Personal life
Rikard Olai Wilhelmsen Kaarbø was born in the parish of Trondenes in Troms, Norway to Wilhelm Olssøn Kaarbø (1811–1876) and ...
and Anna Elisabeth Lund.
[ Her father was a successful businessman who was associated with the establishment of the town of Harstad. He founded several businesses and fostered development of the local shipping industry.
]
Career
Kaarbø attended a boarding school in Celle, Germany
Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneb ...
and decided to pursue a career in art. She studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Kristiania (now Oslo), and further with Henrik Sørensen and Harriet Backer, and with expressionist Kees van Dongen in Paris. In 1918, she held her first solo exhibition in the Artists' Association in Kristiania (now Oslo).
Between 1920 and 1930 she stayed mainly in Paris where she followed the teaching of several noted artists, including Andre Lhote and Pedro Luiz Correia de Araújo (Brazilian, Paris- and Rio-based, 1874-1955). Between 1925-1927 she was a student of Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne. Fauvism
Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of ''les Fauves'' (French language, French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the Representation (arts), repr ...
, and painted many expressionistic portraits of women. She then had a period when she mainly painted landscapes, both coastal subjects and town motifs. In Paris in the 1920s she was influenced by Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
and other avant-garde styles. She participated at the exhibition ("Eight Scandinavian cubists") at in Oslo in 1926. The exhibition was met with great interest but mostly negative criticism, and Kunstnerforbundet was even boycotted by the press. Disappointed by the negative response, Kaarbø switched to painting landscapes in an Impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
style.[
She participated in several exhibitions, including two works at the Salon d'automne in 1922, and she participated in the Exposition Académie Moderne Exhibition at the Gallery of Art Contemporain in 1926 and the Exposition de l'Académie Moderne Léger Ozenfant in the Gallery Aubier in 1927.
Among her works at the National Gallery of Norway are ''Komposisjon med hode'' from 1925 and ''Fra Siena'' from 1937.]Henie Onstad Art Center
The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is an art museum located at Høvikodden in Bærum municipality in Viken county, Norway. It is situated on a headland jutting into the Oslofjord, approximately southwest of Oslo.
History
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1889 births
1949 deaths
People from Harstad
Norwegian women painters
Norwegian expatriates in France
19th-century Norwegian painters
20th-century Norwegian painters