Christian and Oda Krohg

Christian Krohg (1852 –1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life. 

Self portrait, 1883

He was the director and served as the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts from 1909 to 1925.

He was married to artist Oda Krohg (née Lasson; 1860–1935). In 1885, their daughter Nana was born and in 1889 their son muralist Per Lasson Krohg. In 1888 Oda obtained a divorce from her first husband Jørgen Engelhardt; they were married in that same year. 

Christian Krohg: Hal inn!, 1893

In 1897, his wife took their son Per and moved to Paris with dramatist Gunnar Heiberg. They were later reconciled. In 1914, Christian Krohg established residence near Frogner Park where he died in 1925. Oda Krohg died in 1935. Both were buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.

Oda Krohg, B. Lasson, 1888 by Christian Krohg

Oda with friend and lover, the poet Jappe Nilssen, in 1891