Name Asmund Esval | ||
Åsmund (Aasmund) Esval (February 16, 1889 in Nes in Romerike, Norway – October 17, 1971 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian painter.
From 1909 to 1919, Esval was educated at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Esval trained at the Académie de l'Art Moderne in Paris under Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy from 1919 to 1921. Esval studied at the Académie Scandinave also called Maison Watteau in Paris under Per Krogh from 1926 to 1927, and at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts under Georg Jacobsen 1935-1937. Also during his career, Esval taught drawing at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
Esval was primarily a landscape painter that performed a series of quiet Norwegian landscapes constructed by geometric principles. Esval lived in several local farms in Gudbrandsdal, Norway during the 1950s and 1960s. The painting Ringebu Kirke is an example of the many landscape scenes he obtained from the Norwegian valleys. In 1928, Esval made the stained glass windows of Tangen Chursh in Drammen, Norway.
Additionally Esval did portrait painting including subjects such as Ruth Maier who was a model for Esval during her time in Norway. Maier was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007 by Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold, leading her to be described as "Norway's Anne Frank." Maier was deported to Auschwitz in November 1942, where she was killed on arrival, aged only twenty-two.
Beginning in 1928, Esval was a regular participant in the Autumn Exhibition or National Art Exhibition in Oslo. Esval is represented in the Norwegian National Gallery of Art, Norwegian National Touring Exhibitions and Norwegian Royal Gallery.