FROM CUBISM TO CONCRETISM – Early Norwegian avant-garde.
In the artist’s work, the avant-garde art of the early 20th century denoted the replacement of the line by the analysis of the meaning of the surface and the plane. In the last century, Norwegian nonfigurative art had two heydays. In the 1920s and 1930s Norwegian artists got to know Cubism and Purism in Paris. In the 1950s and 1960s Norwegian art rose from the ruins of World War II. Ragnhild Kaarbø (1888-1949), Ragnhild Keyser (1889-1943) and Charlotte Wankel (1888-1969) can be regarded as the first Norwegian cubists, pioneers of nonfigurative art. The post-war geometric school of art is represented by Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921-1983) and Jakob Weidemann (1923-2001).