1. Oda Krohg was the second daughter of public attorney Christian Lasson and Alexandra Cathrine Henriette von Munthe af Morgenstierne.
11 Facts About Oda Krohg
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Oda Krohg's maternal grandmother Anastasia Sergeyevna Saltykova was a member of the Russian princely Saltykov that belonged to the high nobility; other members of this family were Field Marshal Prince Nikolai Saltykov and Catherine the Great's lover Sergei Saltykov.
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Oda Krohg grew up in a liberal-conservative household, along with eight sisters and two brothers.
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Oda Krohg is said to have had affairs with all of these men apart from Munch.
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Oda Krohg's husband took a position as an art instructor at Academie Colarossi in Paris not long thereafter and Oda obtained an artist's studio in Montparnasse.
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Oda Krohg's debut was in 1886 with Ved Kristianiafjorden, which now is stored in the National Gallery of Norway.
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Oda Krohg is known for her landscapes, among them Ved Kristianiafjorden and Ved engen and other works like En abonnent pa Aftenposten, Fra festen and Rouge et Noir and the brave Christian Krohg pa Karl Johan.
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Oda Krohg painted portraits of, among others, Aasta Hansteen, Ivar Arosenius, Gunnar Heiberg, Johanne Dybwad and Christian Krohg.
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Oda Krohg was a central figure in the anti-culture movement of the Kristiania Bohemians in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Oda Krohg exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Oda Krohg was buried at the National Cemetery at Var Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.