Viking Sea Art Collection

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THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 INGER SITTER 1929–2015 X NORWAY X LITHOGRAPHY Inger Sitter was one of Norway’s most famous and significant artists. At the age of 13, she made her debut at the Trondheim Art Association. At 18, she exhibited at the prestigious Autumn Exhibition in Oslo, Norway, and the following year she had her first solo exhibition in the capital. Sitter is known for her passionate engagement in the Norwegian art scene, and she stood on the barricades for both artists’ rights and the fight for nonfigurative painting in a national conservative, figurative and Romantic Norwegian postwar art scene. Sitter’s work is characterized by its raw and immediate expression, with connections to a lyrical, nature-based abstract expressionism. Her fascination with rocks and stones form a continuous backdrop in her subject matter. Sitter became the country’s first female head professor at the Art Academy in 1981, and was one of the driving forces for the creation of the Arts Council and the council for art in public spaces. UNTITLED | 2013 46

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