Carl Dørnberger
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Carl Johannes Andreas Adam Dørnberger (born 23 September 1864 in Nøtterøy, Norway, died on 8 July 1940) was a Norwegian artist.
Life and career
Dornberg was born to German parents – his father worked as master brewer in Tønsberg. When he was eight years old the family traveled back to Germany, where he lived until his seventeen-year-old son began as a student of David Arnesen in Christiania. Later he studied under several artists in Paris.
He debuted at the Høstutstillingen in 1887, and had his first solo exhibition in 1900. That same year he married Line Gurine, and they had a daughter, Gro, in 1904. Dornberg had many famous artists of his circle, including Edvard Munch and Akseli Gallen-Kallela, both painted portraits of him.
Around 1896 he moved to Son, Norway, where he lived for the remainder of his life. His home, known as "Dørnbergerhuset" in Oslo, is in family ownership, but has for years been at the disposal of the painter Arne Samuelsen. Many of Dornberg's works motives from Son, including the historic buildings in the center and steamer jetty lying below his house.
Dornberg is for many at least as well known for his eccentric lifestyle as for his art. He wore a distinctive homburg hat, had wooden legs and bar two pistols which he called "Kitty" and "Kitty's brother." In Dørnbergerhuset there is a bullet hole from a case where his irascible temperament ran riot.
References and external links
- Biography as an Akershus artist
- About the artist and man Carl Dornberg
- About Dornberg's days as a student in Paris
- Paintings of O. Væring art archive