Jean (Hjalmar Dahl) Heiberg

(b Kristiania [now Oslo], 19 Dec 1884; d Oslo, 27 May 1976). Norwegian painter. He was a student at the H?ndverks- og Kunstindustriskole, Kristiania, in 1903-4 and the year after with Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944) in Munich. In 1905 he studied briefly with Jules Renard at the Acad?mie Colarossi in Paris, and in 1908 he was the first Norwegian artist to apply to Henri Matisse's newly opened academy. While his earlier paintings can be characterized as naturalistic in their colour values, he later learnt to build up his compositions with the help of complementary colour pairs derived from the principle of the colour triad, as in Nude (1912; Bergen, Meyers Saml.). Heiberg stayed in Paris until 1912 and pursued his interest in Paul C?zanne's art and theory, an influence reflected in the landscape Heath, Ula (1911; Oslo, N.G.). He again lived in Paris, apart from holidays in Norway, from 1919 to 1929.

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