Anna Eva Bergman Visual and Graphic Artist and Painter Thursday, September 12
Anna Eva Bergman was born in Stockholm in 1909 but was raised in Norway. She studied at the National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo.
Light, poetry and landscape are central in Anna Eva Bergman’s art. Her pictures evoke a sense of being far out at sea, on mountain peaks or thrust out into the universe. Her art evolved at the crossing point of Norwegian and international art scenes. As a Norwegian artist in France, she drew inspiration from a variety of sources and brought the Norwegian landscape into her motifs. In the early 1950s, she developed an abstract painting style that brings to mind rocks, mountains, the sea, horizons, architecture and boats.
‘A picture should be alive – incandescent – sustaining its own internal, self-driven life. It should have a classical greatness, serenity and strength that enable the viewer to feel its inner peace, like the sense one has upon entering a cathedral,’ Anna Eva Bergman wrote in 1946.
Her trademark technique, the use of metal foil on canvas or board, produced a luminous effect. Towards the end of the 1940s, Bergman returned to painting abstract compositions with surrealistic features. The pictures were shown at her first solo exhibition at the Young Artists’ Society in 1950.
In Paris, she worked intensively with graphic art in well-known printmaking studios. Although Anna Eva Bergman regarded France as her home, she maintained contact with Norway by presenting exhibitions and staying in touch with family and friends.
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DATE/TIME: Thursday, September 12 at 10:45 (for 11:00)
SIGN UP: Inger M. Ræder, ingermraeder@runbox.com as soon as
possible and no later than September 5.
PLACE: The National Museum, Brynjulf Bulls Plass 3, 0250 Oslo
PRICE: The entrance fee is NOK 200.- for adults (free of charge for
National Museum members). NOK 110 for seniors. National Museum members have free entry and may bring one guest free of charge.
The entrance fee should be paid at the Museum.
A fee of NOK 125.- for the guided tour should be paid preferably by VIPPS to 591747 or pay by bank transfer to the Forum account: 1600 40 36631. Please state the event and your name in the transaction (in the dialogue box for VIPPS and in the KID-number box for bank payments).
Maximum participants: 25
For last-minute cancellations, please call Inger Ræder on mob.: 976 88 795.
