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 NORWAY
Famous artists in Norway :

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker

whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological
themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-
century Symbolism and greatly influenced German
Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his
most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.

Stephan Abel Sinding was a Norwegian-Danish sculptor.

He moved to Copenhagen in 1883 and had his
breakthrough the same year. In 1890 he obtained Danish
citizenship. In 1910 he settled in Paris where he lived and
worked until his death in 1922.
 Amaldus Clarin Nielsen was a Norwegian painter.

 Odd Nerdrum, is a Norwegian figurative painter. Themes and style in Nerdrum's

work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters
Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with the
abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of his native.
 Harald Oskar Sohlberg was a Norwegian Neo-romantic painter.

In this painting , a man who is screaming and

for me this painting shows expressionism.
 SWEDEN

 Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist

and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal
experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he
wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history.
 Annika Aschberg is an actress.
 Bengt Nordenberg was a Swedish artist who belonged to the Düsseldorf
school of painting. He is best known for his genre paintings with everyday life
scenes from the Dalarna, Skåne and Blekinge areas of Sweden. However, he
moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in the 1850s, working with other painters.
 Simeon Marcus Larson was a Swedish landscape painter from Åtvidaberg,
Östergötland. He has been recognized as "one of Sweden's foremost 19th-
century painters" and labeled as "the most outstanding of the Swedish
Düsseldorf painters." His paintings were known for being dramatic.
 Peter Weiss was a writer, painter, graphic artist and filmmaker.

Scandinavia Kitchen – Picking of Apple

The people harvest and pick the applein their

garden.
 DENMARK

 Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-

scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water,
and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he
established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial
research.
 Johann Georg Ziesenis was a German - Danish portrait painter. After
drawing lessons from his father, Ziesenis lived in Düsseldorf, where he
painted several portraits of the royal family. In 1760 he became court
painter at Hanover. Johann Georg Ziesenis created about 260 portraits and
other paintings.
 Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish American actor, poet, musician,
photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985
thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the
1990s, including The Indian Runner, Carlito's Way, Crimson Tide, Daylight.
 Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist
painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his
contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro
studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-
Baptiste-Camille Corot.
 Per Kirkeby is a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor.

In this painting a group of person having a

different profession and they are like talking
about a certain topic.
 FINLAND
Jani Hänninen- started out as a graffiti-practicing street artist before going on to
hone his technique at the prestigious Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Though his
paintings are still quite clearly informed by street art today, alongside abstract
expressionism, and still have the air of something created quickly and
spontaneously on an urban street wall, they are now a much more .
Tuomas A. Laitinen-a versatile media artist born in the small town of Riihimäki
in southern Finland in 1976 who works in mediums including but not limited to
video, sound, neon, light boxes and printmaking.
Helena Hietanen-who was born in 1963 and lives and works in Helsinki, was
educated in her craft at the capital’s University of Art and Design now known as
Aalto University after the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. She works with
light – both natural and artificial – and textiles, namely the traditional and intricate
art of Finnish lace-making.
Johanna Havimäki -is a sculptor born in 1978 whose main material in her art-
making process is recycled leather clothing, which she re-appropriates and crafts
back into animal-like forms. However, her sculptures, an examination of the circle
of life and materials, have tell-tale signs of their former incarnation as clothing-like
zips and buttons.
Jarmo Mäkilä-s a 1973 graduate of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and is
widely considered one of the key trailblazers of Finnish contemporary visual arts.
He received his first solo exhibition in 1970 at the Young Artists Exhibition in
Helsinki’s Kunsthalle and has exhibited internationally at galleries in New York City,
Los Angeles and Paris.
 ICELAND

 Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale

installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air
temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio
Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research.
 Dieter Roth was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints,
sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He
was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot. The dark undertone and furious,
obsessive energy of his work ultimately.
 Vilhjálmur Einarsson is an Icelandic former athlete, and triple-jump silver medalist
at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Vilhjálmur grew up in the
East-Icelandic fishing village of Reyðarfjörður and is the son of Einar Stefánsson
and Sigríður Vilhjálmsdóttir.
 Erró is a postmodern artist. He studied art in Norway and in Italy, and has resided
in Paris, Thailand and on the island of Formentera for most of his life. In 1989 he
donated a large collection of his works to the Reykjavik Arts Museum.
 Louisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-American painter. Matthíasdóttir was born
in Reykjavík. She showed artistic ability at an early age, and studied first in
Denmark and then under Marcel Gromaire in Paris.