Asker, also called Asker proper, is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway, located approximately 20km southwest of Oslo. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker together with the traditional Buskerud districts Røyken and Hurum; Asker constitutes the northern fourth and is part of the Greater Oslo Region. The administrative center was the town of Asker, which remains so for the new larger municipality. Asker was established as a parish in the Middle Ages and as a municipality on 1 January 1838.
Harriet Backer was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally. She is best known for her detailed interior scenes, communicated with rich colors and the interplay of light and shadow.
Lagertha Munthe was a Norwegian painter.
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg. He also became known for his landscape paintings, and became part of the artist circle known as the Skagen Painters. He also became known for his design in 1905 of Norway's national coat of arms with the Norwegian lion, which was used by the government and the royal house. The design is still used in the royal coat of arms and the royal flag.
Ragnhild Kaarbø was a Norwegian painter. Influenced by Fauvism, she painted expressionistic portraits. She was also influenced by Cubism, but as her cubistic paintings were criticized by the press, she eventually focused on impressionistic landscape paintings.
Ragnhild Keyser was a Norwegian painter. She was a visual artist and abstract painter principally active during the 1920s.
Thorvald Erichsen was a Norwegian Post-Impressionist painter; known primarily for landscapes and still-lifes.
Oluf Wold-Torne was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, educator and designer. He was known primarily for landscapes and still-lifes and was influenced by Cézanne.
Frøydis Haavardsholm was a Norwegian visual artist and book illustrator.
Anna Schønheyder was a Norwegian painter and textile artist.
Astri Welhaven Heiberg was a Norwegian painter, best known for her portraits of female nudes and landscapes.
Kristine (Kris) Torne née Laache was a Norwegian painter and textile artist. In 1894, she was one of ten artists who participated in the Vågåsommeren artists' colony in Vågå, Innlandet County. After painting landscapes and portraits, one of which won a prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition, in 1906 she began creating embroidered works and rugs based on cartoons by her husband Oluf Wold-Torne.
Alice Dagny Pihl Salvesen (1869–1959) was a Norwegian painter. In 1894, she was one of ten artists who participated in the Vågåsommeren artists' colony in Vågå, Innlandet County. She was principally a portrait painter but also created mood paintings, landscapes and interiors.
Johanna Bugge Berge (1874–1961) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and church decorator. In 1894, she was one of ten artists who participated in the Vågåsommeren artists' colony in Vågå, Innlandet County. After marrying Rikard Berge in 1908, she illustrated several of his books with subjects from Norwegian folklore. In 1927, she performed extensive decoration work in Lunde Church in Nome, Telemark.
Vågåsommeren or the Vågå Summer was a Norwegian artists' collective which came together in Vågå, Innlandet County, in 1894. It consisted of ten painters, all of whom had spent the previous year studying art at Harriet Backer's school in Kristiania. They were looking for a more relaxed approach to painting than the strict, clear-cut Realism of the times.
Harald Alfred Hauge (1876–1901) was a Norwegian painter who is remembered for his symbolist works. In 1894, he was one of ten artists who spent the summer months together in the collective known as Vågåsommeren. During his short life he travelled to Denmark, Belgium, France and Spain. Works by Hauge are in the collection of the National Museum of Norway.
Lisbet Dæhlin née Hübschmann (1922–2012) was a Danish-born Norwegian ceramist who is remembered for her blue-glazed jugs and vases. She was among those who helped to develop Norwegian ceramics from practical use to works of art. After studying in Copenhagen, she moved to Norway in 1949 and worked for a time with the sculptor and ceramist Svein Visted (1903–84) in his Lillehammer workshop. Around 1970, she established her own studio in the Frysia district of Oslo where she worked until 2007. She has exhibited widely in Norway and beyond. A number of Dæhlin's creations are in the permanent collection of Norway's National Museum.
Joronn Sitje was a Norwegian painter. She is known for her expressionistic paintings in the 1920s, and for her motives from Africa in the 1930s.
