Marie Tannæs Explained

Marie Tannæs
Birth Date:19 March 1854
Birth Place:Oslo, Norway
Death Place:Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality:Norwegian
Education:Drawing School in Kristiana, Académie Colarossi
Field:Painting

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]

Notes and References

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