Lars Hertervig | |
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 Lars Hertervig (1851), portrait by Niels Bjørnsen Møller (1827-1887) | |
| Born | (1830-02-16)16 February 1830 |
| Died | 6 January 1902(1902-01-06) (aged 71) |
| Occupation | painter |
Lars Hertervig (16 February 1830 – 6 January 1902) was a Norwegian painter. His semi-fantastical work with motives from the coastal landscape in the traditional district ofRyfylke is regarded as one of the peaks of Norwegian painting.[1]
Lars Hertervig was born in 1830 atBorgøy, in the municipalityTysvær inNorway, on the west coast of Norway, north ofStavanger.[2] His family were poor,Quaker farmers. Hertervig studied painting at theArts Academy of Düsseldorf from 1852, as the private pupil ofHans Gude. He is associated with theDüsseldorf school of painting.
In 1854, due to a cruel prank played by his fellow students, he experienced a temporary mental breakdown, and moved back to the Stavanger area. In October 1856, Hertervig enteredGaustad asylum.[3]
His last 30 years he struggled financially, and finally ended up at the poorhouse. He could not afford to paint with oil on canvas, and several works from this period are watercolors and gouache on paper not meant for painting, sometimes using bits of papers glued together with homemade rye flour paste.
His artistic breakthrough was posthumous, coming at the1914 Jubilee Exhibition inKristiania (now Oslo), twelve years after his death in Stavanger.
Odd Kvaal Pedersen wroteNarren og hans mester, a documentary about Lars Hertervig in 1987.[4]Paal-Helge Haugen wroteHertervig: Ein opera in 1995.[5]Jon Fosse created an homage to Hertervig with his 1995 novelMelancholia I and his 1996 sequelMelancholy II. Fosse also wrote thelibretto forMelancholia, an opera adaptation byGeorg Friedrich Haas, which premiered at theOpera Garnier in Paris on 9 June 2008 on stage by Stanislas Nordey (Laurence Olivier Award 2008 for a new opera) and costumes of Raoul Fernandez.[6]
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