Arne Texnes Kavli (1878 - 1970)

Arne Kavli was born 27 May, 1878 in Bergen, and received his first restricted initiation into the world of artistic expression at the Technical School in his native city, afterward studying in Copenhagen under Peder Kroyer (see askART), at the Antwerp Academy, and in Paris. The son of a well known actor, it is not unnatural that Kavli should from the outset have excelled in the province of character interpretation and portraiture.

His debut was made at the Bergen Kunstforening in 1895, since which date his efforts have been attended with no little success and have seldom failed to enlist the most discriminating interest and appreciation. It was toward the subtle, almost monochromatic har...