Beate Ueland, Hanne, Leithe, Janne Kathrine, Moi, Arlyne, Frida Hansen: Art Nouveau I Full Blomst [Frida Hansen, Art Nouveau in Full Bloom], exh. cat., Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger (12 June–18 October, 2015), Stavanger, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, 2015
→Thue, Anniken. Frida Hansen: En Europeer I Norsk Tekstilkunst Omkring 1900, Stavanger, Universitetsforlaget, 1986
Frida Hansen: Art Nouveau I full blomst [Frida Hansen: Art Nouveau in full bloom], Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, 12 June–18 October, 2015
→Jubileumsutstillingen på Frogner, Frognerparken, Oslo, 15 May–11 October, 1914
→Frida Hansen, Husflidsforeningen, Kristiania (Oslo), January, 1893
Norwegian textile artist.
Frederikke “Frida” Hansen, née Bolette, was born to a wealthy family and showed an early talent for the arts. She studied painting under Kitty Kielland (1843–1914) and Johan Bennetter (1822–1904) in 1871. She wanted to become an artist, but her career was put on hold by her marriage to merchant Wilhelm Severin Hansen in 1873. However, after the financial crash in the 1880s and her family bankruptcy in 1883, she started her own embroidery business. In 1889 she learned weaving with Kjerstina Hauglum (1867–1915) in Lærdal in the Norwegian district of Sogn.
Her first work Birkebeinerne fører den unge Håkon Håkonsson på ski over fjellet [Birkebein soldiers escorting the young Haakon Haakonsson on skis over the mountain, 1889–1890] is an example of traditional Norwegian tapestries. It took its subject from a painting by Knud Bergslien (1827–1908) showing two warriors on skis, one of them carrying the young prince as they flee to safety. With this work, F. Hansen learned the limitations of naturalistic depiction translated into weaving, which led her to the renewal of the traditional Norwegian patterns.
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