Odd Nerdrum (born April 8, 1944) is a Norwegian
figurative painter.
Nerdrum was born in Oslo and
studied traditional classical painting in the
Art Academy of Oslo and, with
Joseph Beuys, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He began to teach
himself how to paint in a classical manner, putting himself in direct
opposition to the art of his native Norway. Nerdrum devised a method of
painting of mixing and grinding his own pigments, stretching his canvas
and the working from live models. He had his first one-person gallery
exhibition in New York at the Martina Hamilton Gallery in 1983. He is now
living in Iceland. Nerdrum became a controversial artist, claiming among
other things that his art should be understood as kitsch
rather than art as such. "On Kitsch" is a manifesto composed by
Nerdrum concerning his distinction between kitsch
and art.
Nerdrum divides his time between his home in Iceland and his farm in
Norway.
The Summer
Early Morning
Iron Law
Isola
Man with Headband
Return of the Sun
Sleeping Courier
The Black Cloud
The Brick
The Citadel
The Cloud
The Dentures
The Night Guard
The Ultimate Sight
The Water Protectors
Baby
Dawn
Dying Couple
Five Persons Around a Water Hole
Hermaphrodite
Man Bitten by Snake
Man Imitating Cloud
Sleeping Twins
Sole Morte
The Seed Protectors
The Singers
Three Namegivers
Two Men Guiding One
Woman with Doorknob
Woman with Milk
Barter
Blue Self-portrait
Buried Alive
Dancer with Snake
Hepatitis
Initiation
Life Saver
Man with Long Hair
Man with Womans Head
Old Man with Dead Maiden
Self-portrait in Armour
Stripper
Three Men at Dawn
Unarmed Man
Woman Kills Injured Man
Black Self-portraite
Pissing Woman
Self-portrait as Polar Exploere
Self-portrait as the Prophet of Painting
Self-portrait in Golden Cape
Self-portrait in Profile
Self-portrait with Melting Eyes
Self-portrait with Nose Bleed
Sleeping Prophet
The Astronomer
The Twins
Transmission
Twins by the Sea
Two Tounges
Limbo
Love Divided
The Messenger
The Kiss
Man in Boat
The Boat
Volunteer
Woman in a Boat
5 Singing Women
Self-portrait with Glasses
Night Bath
Second Birth
Horsebath
Early Morning
Flock
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Kontalottaret Media
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Drifting
Summer Nights
Child with Icon
Contra
Natura
1990
The One-Armed Aviator
1984
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