- Kitty Lange Kielland
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name = Kitty Lange Kielland
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birthname = Kitty Lange Kielland
birthdate = birth date|1843|10|8Citation| contribution = Kitty (Lange) Kielland| title = The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art| publisher = Oxford University Press, Inc.|year = 2003]
location =Stavanger ,Norway
deathdate = death date and age|1914|1|8|1843|10|8
deathplace = Kristiania,Norway
nationality = Norwegian
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training =Hans Gude Hermann Baisch Eilif Peterssen Léon Pelouse cite web|url=http://www.artsmia.org/mirror-of-nature/the-artists.cfm?lng=0&artist=kielland|title= Kitty Lange Kielland|accessdate= 2008-03-23|work= A Mirror Of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910|publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Arts ]
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awards =Kitty Lange Kielland (
October 8 ,1843 —January 8 ,1914 ) was a Norwegian landscape painter.Early life and training
Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of
Alexander Kielland . Kielland's mutual interactions with her brother would be important to shaping her as an artist. Although she received some training in drawing and painting, it was not until she turned thirty that she was allowed to train as a professional artist. In 1873 she traveled toKarlsruhe where she was trained byHans Gude . As a woman Kielland was forced to take private lessons from Gude instead of joining his landscape painting class. Gude's adherence to realism left a lasting impression on Kielland that was visible in her later works. Kielland made rapid progress during the two years she spent training with Gude.Munich
Kielland left Karlsruhe for
Munich in 1875 where she joined a colony of Norwegian artists living there. In Munich she studied with French-inspired realistHermann Baisch , and with NorwegianEilif Peterssen whom some consider to be her most important teacher. Kielland lived in Munich until 1878.Jæren
In 1876 Kielland visited
Jæren in southern Norway. Kielland's former teacher Hans Gude had visited Jæren in 1869 and 1872 and upon his return had suggested to her that she should travel there and paint it.cite book | last = Haverkamp | first = Frode | authorlink = | others = trans. Joan Fuglesang | title = Hans Fredrik Gude: From National Romanticism to Realism in Landscape | accessdate = 2008-01-07 | language = Norwegian | doi = | id = | pages = | chapter = | chapterurl = | quote = | ref = ] Kielland prepared studies while she was in Jæren and later used these to paint the characteristically flat landscape when she returned to Munich, making her the first artist to do so. Her painting of Jæren shows a realistic depiction of the landscape, but with unifying atmospheric effects. Kielland returned to Jæren regularly during the summers, and so the monotonous landscape andpeat bog s of the area became one of her favoritemotif s. Kielland said that she was so interested in the area around Jæren because of "the grandeur of the landscape and the wealth of poverty".cite web|url=http://www.artsmia.org/mirror-of-nature/nordic-art-detail.cfm?nor_art_cat=45&lng=0|title= In the Open Air|accessdate= 2008-03-23|work= A Mirror Of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910|publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Arts ] The skill with which the landscape was executed marks her as one of Gude's most outstanding students.Paris
In 1879 Kielland moved to
Paris , and exhibited her paintings for the first time. Kielland was briefly a pupil of the landscape painterLéon Pelouse who lived in nearbyCernay-la-Ville . Kielland left Paris in 1889.Later life and death
Kielland worked on simplifying her art in the 1890s under the influence of
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen .Kielland participated eagerly in public debates regrading
women's rights .Kielland painted little towards the end of her life. She suffered from
senile dementia for several years, and finally died in Kristiania in 1914.elected works
References
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NAME=Kielland, Kitty Lange
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Norwegian painter
DATE OF BIRTH=March 13 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH=Stavanger, Norway
DATE OF DEATH=August 17 1903
PLACE OF DEATH=Oslo, Norway
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