Bjarne Rise

Bjarne Rise
Bjarne Rise
Photo is owned by Even Rise.
Born(1904-06-18)18 June 1904
USA Minneapolis, USA
Died30 September 1984(1984-09-30) (aged 80)
Norway Oslo, Norway
EducationStatens Kunst- og Håndverkskole
Statens Kunstakademi
Era20th century
MovementSurrealism

Bjarne Rise (June 18, 1904 in Minneapolis, United States – September 30, 1984 in Oslo) was a Norwegian painter.

Biography

Background

Bjarne Rise was born in Minneapolis, United States of Norwegian parents. When he was five years old, the family moved back to his home village of Oppdal Municipality where he had his upbringing. Autumn of 1925, he moved to Oslo where he first went on the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. After that he studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts first in 1927 and later, in 1932–1933 with Axel Revold, in 1935–1936 with Georg Jacobsen. He was also a time, after completing the program at the Art Academy, trained by Aksel Jørgensen of Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Style

The artist Bjarne Rise regarded as Norway's first surrealist. Periodically, he cultivated abstraction one but mostly, his art was figurative in character. Both landscape figure photos and Still life expresses a soft lyrical emotion through a bright palette and a conscious constructive structure which shows the influence of George Jacobsen. He was also influenced by the Danish painter Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen.

Works

Rise is best known for his altarpieces and three reliefs such as the altarpieces in the Follafoss Church, (1955), Fagerhaug Chapel, (1960) and Ringkollen Chapel, 1981), and murals in Glomfjord church, 1957 ). In addition to painting are wooden reliefs and he worked with tapestries. National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo owns a wooden relief and 8 paintings by him. In 1955 he published a book about the artist Jean Heiberg.

Works (selection)

Public Buildings (decoration)

  • "Veronika-cloth," Altarpiece in Gamvik Church (tapestry)
  • "Christ and the three apostles" altarpiece Follafoss Church.
  • "Five Wise and five bad Virgins" on organ loft and altarpiece in the Namsos Church (painted wooden reliefs and pictorial woven carpets).
  • "The Risen Christ," Moss, pictorial woven carpets in hospital.
  • Trilogy "With their own hands - Spring, Summer, Autumn", three pictorial woven carpets in "Norske Folk" gården, Oslo.
  • "Indian Dream", painting of a house in Rennebu Municipality.
  • "The Sower" in Opdal Sparebank (painted wooden reliefs).

Cartons for woven carpets

  • "Indian dream"
  • "The Virgin Mary of her three Suitor," after an ancient antependium
  • "Golden Bird"
  • "Princess, which no one could silence"
  • "Get rid of animals"
  • "Maternité"

Exhibitions (selection)

References

  1. ↑ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Bjarne Rise". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Koefoed, Holger. "Karen Holtsmark". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 April 2010.