Women From History BOT~ Women Impressionists, Harriet Backer ~<br>
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Harriet Backer (1845–1932) was a Norwegian painter was a pioneer among female artists in the Nordic countries <br>
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She attended Wilhemine Autentrieth Girls' School and Hartvig Nissen School. At 12, she first took lessons in drawing and painting, notably with Joachim Calmeyer. She studied with art instructor Johan Fredrik Eckersberg, in Berlin with Alphons Holländer, with artist Christen Brun and attended the painting school of Knud Bergslien. Later, she was a student of Eilif Peterssen in Munich. She was a student of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. She also spent a summer in the town of Rochefort-en-Terre in Morbihan painting with Léon Germain Pelouse, whom she called "the most natural man I have ever met."<br>
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Additionally, Backer traveled extensively as a companion to her sister, concert pianist Agathe Backer Grøndahl, throughout Europe. She took further lessons in the course of these trips. From 1880 to 1888, she stayed in Paris where she shared a studio with fellow Norwegian artist, Kitty Lange Kielland. She was also associated with Salon Marie Trélat in Paris.<br>
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In 1888, Backer moved back to Norway permanently. From 1889 until 1912, she operated an art school and was an influence on a number of younger artists. Backer produced just around 180 works of art mostly based upon local themes. She never belonged to any school but worked in the tradition of realism in painting, where she is regarded as both a naturalist and an early Impressionist.<br>
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She won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). Backer exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She received the King's Medal of Merit in Gold in 1908. In 1925, she was made a Knight 1st class in the Order of St. Olav.<br>
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Painting : Blue Interior <br>
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