Signe Scheel
{{Short description|Norwegian artist (1860–1942)}}
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| death_place = Oslo, Norway
| nationality = Norwegian
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Signe Scheel (1860–1942) was a Norwegian painter.
Biography
Scheel was born 23 November 1860 in Hamar.{{cite web|title=Signe Scheel |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/275923 |website=RKD |accessdate=23 August 2018}} She studied with Christian Krohg in Norway, with Karl Gussow in Berlin, Germany, and with Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France.{{cite web |last1=Aaserud |first1=Anne |title=Signe Scheel |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Signe_Scheel |website=Norsk biografisk leksikon |accessdate=23 August 2018 |language=no |date=28 September 2014}}
Scheel exhibited frequently at the Høstutstillingen.{{cite web |last1=Aaserud |first1=Anne |title=Signe Scheel |url=https://nkl.snl.no/Signe_Scheel |website=Norsk kunstnerleksikon |accessdate=23 August 2018 |language=no |date=20 February 2017}} Her most famous work, The Lord's Servant, is in the National Museum of Art in Oslo.
Scheel died 15 December 1942 in Oslo.
Legacy
In 2017, the Signe Scheel Hall was established at Skrivergarden Undesløs, where Scheel lived from 1877 to 1898.{{cite web |last1=Kirkholt |first1=Tore |title=Signe Scheel |url=https://snl.no/Signe_Scheel |website=Store norske leksikon |accessdate=23 August 2018 |language=no |date=18 June 2018}}
Gallery
File:Lord's servant by Signe Scheel.jpg|Lord's Servant by Signe Scheel
File:Marie Tannæs - malt av Signe Scheel - 1892 - Oslo Museum - OB.00503.jpg|Portrait of Marie Tannæs (1892), by Signe Scheel
File:Signe Scheel - Marias besøk hos Elisabeth. - TKM-456-1928 - Trondheim kunstmuseum.jpg|Mary's visit to Elizabeth, 1906
References
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External links
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/signe-scheel/ images of Signe Scheel's paintings] on artNET
- [http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/term/producer/Signe_Scheel images of Signe Scheel's drawings] at the Nasjonalmuseet, The Fine Art Collections
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Category:19th-century Norwegian painters
Category:20th-century Norwegian painters
Category:20th-century Norwegian women painters
Category:19th-century Norwegian women painters
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