EVEN ULVING (1863 - 1952)
Kvasstinden (1,010 m -3,313ft )
Breitinden (910 m - 2,985ft)
Norway
In Motiv of Helgeland. Winter landscape with reindeer, oil on canvas, 1906,
Royal Palace Collection, Oslo
The mountains
Kvasstinden (1,010 m -3,313ft ) and Breitinden (910 m - 2,985ft) are part of the The Seven Sisters, a mountainous massif of Norway located on the island of Alsten, in the county of Nordland, southwest of Mo i Rana. From north-east to south-west, the seven summits are: Botnkrona (1,072 m - 3517ft)), Grytfoten (1,019 m -3, 343ft), Skjæringen (1,037 m- 3,402ft), Tvillingene ("the Twins") (945 m- 3,100ft and 980 m - 3,215ft), Kvasstinden (1,010 m -3,313ft) and Breitinden (910 m - 2,985ft).
The painter
Even Christophersen Ulving (was a Norwegian painter. At the age of 18, he traveled to Kristiania to learn his craft with Wilhelm von Krogh In 1883/84 he was a student at Knud Bergslien's painting school, in 1885/86 by Heinz Heim and Carl Frithjof Smith at the Kunstakademie in Munich, and in 1887 by William Adolphe Bouguereau at the Académie Julian in Paris.
Ulving painted naturalistic, mostly motifs from Helgeland or Vestfold . He especially understood how to portray the characteristic colors of the different seasons in a variety of often powerful tones, without causing any discord. His landscapes always show human activities or traces of it. He also likes to paint rural genre scenes in huts and living rooms.
Pictures of him hanging in the royal castle, and also the National Museum Oslo recently bought two works by him.
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