1. Harriet Backer was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally.
20 Facts About Harriet Backer
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Harriet Backer is best known for her detailed interior scenes, communicated with rich colors and the interplay of light and shadow.
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Harriet Backer's parents were Nils Backer and Sofie Smith Petersen, and she was the aunt of the painter Astri Welhaven Heiberg.
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Harriet Backer's father was a shipping merchant and her mother was from a wealthy family.
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Harriet Backer attended Wilhemine Autentrieth Girls' School and Hartvig Nissen School.
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Harriet Backer studied with art instructor Johan Fredrik Eckersberg, in Berlin with Alphons Hollander, with artist Christen Brun and attended the painting school of Knud Bergslien.
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Harriet Backer was a student of Leon Bonnat and Jean-Leon Gerome in Paris.
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Harriet Backer took further lessons in the course of these trips.
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Harriet Backer was associated with Salon Marie Trelat in Paris.
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In 1888, Harriet Backer moved back to Norway permanently and settled in Sandvika, outside of Christiania.
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Harriet Backer gave art lessons to the novelist Cora Sandel.
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Harriet Backer produced just around 180 works of art mostly based upon local themes.
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Harriet Backer never belonged to any school but her work is often compared with that of her contemporary Eilif Peterssen.
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Harriet Backer worked in the tradition of realism in painting, where she is regarded as both a naturalist and an early Impressionist.
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Harriet Backer was awarded the Schaffers legat in 1878,1879, and 1880.
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Harriet Backer won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle.
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Harriet Backer exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Harriet Backer received the King's Medal of Merit in Gold in 1908.
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Harriet Backer died on 25 March 1932 and was buried at Var Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.
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Several of the largest museums and art collections in Norway exhibit art by Harriet Backer, including the National Museum in Oslo, Bergen Museum and Rasmus Meyers Collection at the Bergen Kunstmuseum in Bergen.