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  • Nikolai Astrup
    Aug 30, 1880 - Jan 21, 1928
  • The Parsonage - Nikolai Astrup was a Norwegian painter and printmaker known for his vivid and enchanting depictions of rural life in Norway, particularly in the region of Jølster, where he lived most of his life. Astrup’s work is often associated with the Symbolist and Neo-Romantic movements, and he is celebrated for his ability to capture the magic and mysticism of the Norwegian landscape.
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  • Prestegarden
    1899-1906
    Oil on canvas
    101 x 88 cm
    Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway.

    The Parsonage (c 1928) presumably shows the replacement for the original building which was demolished in 1907, which Astrup had painted using a less extreme perspective projection in his The Shady Side of the Jolster Parsonage (before 1908). It continues to develop his theme of radical perspective in buildings, to which he had returned from time to time.

    Through the winter of 1927-28, Astrup’s pulmonary tuberculosis worsened. After Christmas, he developed pneumonia, and died of that on 21 January 1928, aged just forty-seven. His widow Engel went on to become a very successful textile designer, raised her eight children, and maintained their smallholding. She died thirty-eight years later, in 1966.

    In 1986, their home at Astruptunet was opened as a museum, and between February 2016 and January 2017 a major exhibition of Nikolai Astrup’s paintings and prints was held in London, Norway, and Germany. Work is progressing on his catalogue raisonné, and many of his works are on show in Bergen and Oslo.

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Other paintings by Nikolai Astrup:

The Ice Queen
The Ice Queen
The Old Vicarage
The Old Vicarage
The Parsonage by Moonlight
The Parsonage by Moonlight
The Parsonage in the Rain
The Parsonage in the Rain
Nikolai AstrupNorwegian modernist painter Nikolai Astrup was born in Kalvåg. In 1899, Astrup left for Kristiania (now Oslo) where he matriculated as student at the Royal Academy of Design. Astrup quickly left to join Harriet Backer’s painting school where he studied until 1901. Astrup lived in Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian. He was a student of Christian Krohg at Académie Colarossi from 1901-02. Astrup later traveled to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Hamburg. By 1902, he had returned to and settled in Jøster. In 1911, Astrup studied under Lovis Corinth in Berlin at Arthur Lewin-Funcke’s school of Painting.

Astrup preferred clear, strong colors and usually made landscape art depicting his surroundings in Jølster. His paintings describe an intimate interaction between nature and the developed environment, characterized by bold lines and distinctive rich color. Astrup is regarded as a neo-romantic painter, but he also worked with woodcuts.