Marie Tannæs

Marie Katharine Helene Tannæs (1854–1939), was a Norwegian painter known for her landscape paintings.

Marie Tannæs
Portrait of Marie Tannæs, 1892
by Signe Scheel
Born(1854-03-19)19 March 1854
Oslo, Norway
Died20 February 1939(1939-02-20) (aged 84)
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityNorwegian
EducationDrawing School in Kristiana,[1] Académie Colarossi
Known forPainting

Biography

Tannæs was born 19 March 1854 in Oslo.[2] She studied with Carl Schøyen, Christian Wexelsen, Christian Krohg, Hans Heyerdahl, Erik Werenskiold, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. She attend the Académie Colarossi in Paris from 1888 through 1889.[3]

Tannæs exhibited frequently at the Høstutstillingen.[3] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Tannæs received an honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and a Silver Medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.[3]

Tannæs died 20 February 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2]

  • Washing clothes
  • Gårdsinteriør (Vøienvolden), 1893 Stavanger kunstmuseum
  • Tyveholmen, 1883 Oslo Museum
  • Borgen Gård, Vestre Aker, 1895 Oslo Museum
  • Brochmannshaugen, 1900 Oslo Museum
  • Vøyenvollen, 1924 Oslo Museum

References
  1. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. "Tannæs, Marie (1854 - 1939) [no] - KulturNav". kulturnav.org. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  3. Wichstrøm, Anne; Aamold, Svein (20 February 2017). "Marie Tannæs". Norsk kunstnerleksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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