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
Known forPainting

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

Biography

Tannæs was born 19 March 1854 in Oslo.[1] 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.[2]

Tannæs exhibited frequently at the Høstutstillingen.[2] She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3] 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.[2]

Tannæs died 20 February 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1]

References

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