Per Deberitz - Artist Info

About Per Deberitz

  • Biography

    Per Deberitz trained as a painter at the National Academy of the Arts School under Oscar Wergeland in 1898-1899. The winters from 1903 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1907 he studied with Kristian Zahrtmann in Copenhagen.

    Deberitz artistic platform was still relatively narrow and primarily oriented towards French painting tradition. His painting has an academic character. Design wise it is concentrated on nude figure painting, landscapes and portraits.

    He had several long stays in France both before and after the First World War, and from October 1909 to May 1910, he attended the private painting school of Henri Matisse in Paris.

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