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Open today 11-17 (Restaurant 11-22)

Christian Krohg, Per Krohg

07.11.30 – 30.11.30
Katalog NR 1 Christianog Per Krohg Nov1930

The opening of the exhibition of works by father and son Krohg was the first in the Kunstnernes hus after the autumn exhibition, which was also very well attended and publicized. The large Albertine picture was on loan from the National Gallery. A surprise was that at the opening, Minister Wedel had that morning requested that Per Krohg should not exhibit the portrait of him, on loan from the City Museum, which Per Krohg solved by some painterly moves that changed the portrait to instead depict General E. de Castro (Dagbladet, 07.11.1930), thus removing the image's character as a portrait and exhibiting it only as a work of art. This painting was taken down the next day. Works by Chr. Krohg were shown from his earliest youth through to his last work, which was painted in the summer of 1925. The exhibition showed that Chr. Krohg never stood still in his artistic development. A long article by Pola Gauguin describing Chr. Krohg and his art shown at this exhibition was published in Morgenbladet on November 15, 1930. Johan H. Langaard wrote a long article about Per Krohg that was published in Morgenbladet on November 10, 1930, in which he also pointed out the kinship between father and son in art, and how Norwegian Per Krohg was despite having lived abroad for so long.

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