Kitty Kielland (1843-1914)

Aliases: Christine Lange Kielland; Kitty L. Kielland; Kitty Lange Kielland

Professions: Painter

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Kitty Kielland Biography

(b Stavanger, 8 Oct 1843; d Kristiania [now Oslo], 1 Oct 1914). Norwegian painter. She grew up in a rich and cultivated household; her younger brother Alexander L. Kielland became a well-known writer. In Stavanger she received a little training in drawing and painting, but it was not until she was nearly 30 that she was allowed to train to be a professional artist. In 1873 she went to Karlsruhe, where she was for two years a student of Hans Fredrik Gude. Under Gude’s supervision she made rapid progress. His realistic style had a decisive and long-lasting influence on her. From 1875 to 1878 Kielland lived in Munich, where she studied for a while with the French-inspired realist Hermann Baisch (1846–94). Her most important teacher at this time, however, was the young Norwegian painter Eilif Peterssen. In 1876 she visited Jæren, in the south of Norway, for the first time and was the first artist to paint this flat landscape. Her view, From Jæren (1877; priv. col.), painted, from sketches, in Munich, marks a new degree of confidence. The landscape, conceived realistically but with a unifying atmospheric effect, marks her out as one of Gude’s most outstanding students. In the summer of 1878 she was again at Jæren, and many of her best-known studies came into being at this time (several of them in Oslo, N.G.). From now on her painting is typified by her use of the realistically conceived landscape and by an unsentimental approach to subject-matter.

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