artist: Kaare Wildhagen (Norwegian 1906-1984)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 60 x 50 cm canvas size / 64 x 54 cm frame size (approx)
signed
dated 1966 on verso
presented in a hand finished timber frame
AU $1425 (approx US $950 / 860 EUROS / 136,500 yen / 725 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Kaare Wildhagen was born 25 May, 1906. He was was a Norwegian painter and print maker.
Wildhagen studied at the Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole (SHKS) (The Norwegian School of Crafts and Art Industry) in Oslo and the Statens Kunstakademi (the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts) in Oslo. At the Academy he studied under Axel Revold from 1935-1937) under Axel Revold, In 1936 and 1937 he also had the Danish painter, Professor Georg Jacobsen as a teacher.
He exhibited regularly beginning in 1934 where he debuted at Høstutstillingen, right through to 1972 at Sørlandsutst. Select other exhibitions include Ung norsk konst (Young Norwegian Art), 1950, and Ung norsk Kunst. Maleri (Young Norwegian Art, Painting), 1952.
He is best known for his portraits, landscapes and figurative works in a clear, finely tuned colour scheme. In addition to his fine artwork he painted sets at the Centralteatret (Central Theatre) in Oslo from 1938-1941 and in the Studioteatret (Studio Theatre) in Oslo after World War II. He taught fine art from the late 1930s and between 1953 and 1976 was head of the Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole.
Examples of his work are held in the public collections including The National Gallery, Oslo, the National Museum, Oslo, and the Bergen Kunstmuseum.
Wildhagen passed away at the age of 78 on Nov 25, 1984.