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Kai Fjell

Kai Fjell (1907 - 1989) was active/lived in Norway.  Kai Fjell is known for Expressionist rural themed painting, printmaking, scenography.

Kai Breder Fjell (Norwegian pronunciation: ['ka? 'fj?l], March 2, 1907 – January 10, 1989) was a Norwegian painter, printmaker and scenographer.

Fjell was born on a farm in the village Skoger near Drammen. His father was the farmer and painter Conrad Bendiks Fjeld. His mother was a sister of Marie Hamsun. Fjell married Ingeborg Helene Holt in 1931.

Kai Fjell became a pupil of Carl von Hanno in Oslo in 1926. A year later, he enrolled at the State's School of Art and Design of Oslo, where his main teachers were August Eiebakke and from 1929 Olaf Willums.

His debut exhibition in Oslo Art Society in 1932 was largely unsuccessful. Fjell achieved immediate success with his exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists' House) in 1937, where all the exhibited paintings were sold.

Kai Fjell early developed an ornamental expressionism. His pictures are heavily influenced by rural life and traditional Norwegian folk art.

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