Spring Evening in Jølster by Nikolai Astrup was created in 1926. The painting is in National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo. The size of the work is 89,5 x 110,5 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.

About the Artist: Norwegian modernist painter Nikolai Astrup was born in Kalvåg. In 1899, Astrup left for Kristiania (now Oslo) where he matriculated as student at the Royal Academy of Design. Astrup quickly left to join Harriet Backer’s painting school where he studied until 1901. Astrup lived in Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian. He was a student of Christian Krohg at Académie Colarossi from 1901-02. Astrup later traveled to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Hamburg… Read more

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