Ida Lorentzen
Ida Margrethe Lorentzen (born December 11, 1951 in New York City ) is an American born, Norwegian artist known for her paintings of interiors of a melancholic nature.
Biography
Ida Lorentzen was raised and educated in New England and Oslo. She studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts (1970–1974) and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (1974–1979). She was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 for her Room With a View, (1993) .[1] She married Erik Nilsen-Moe in 1974,
Ida Lorentzen has painted several portrait commissions, Queen Sonja of Norway (1994) and the Coronation Ceremony in the Nidaros Cathedral in 1991. Master dissertations are on file at Oslo University, Bergen University and Tromsø University.[2]
Family
Her father Oivind Lorentzen Jr. was chairman and president of Flagship Cruises, Ina., which operated the cruise ship Sea Venture. Her maternal grandfather was Brigadier General LaPrade, and her paternal grandfather, a former member of the Chemical Bank international who served during World War II as director of Norwegian shipping, in charge of the Free Norwegian Merchant Marine. Her husband was the son of Norwegian industrialist Halfdan Nilsen‐Moe, and her aunt-in-law Ingrid Smestad (née Nilsen-Moe), was married to Carl Smestad, scion of the Smestad family.[3]
References
- Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund (The American Academy of Arts and Letters)"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Ida Lorentzen (Harmon-Meek Gallery)
- "Ida Margrethe Loventzen Married to Erik Nilsen‐Moe of Norway". Retrieved 2018-10-18.
