Karl Erik Harr is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 painter

Painting

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, illustrator

Illustrator

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, graphic artist and author

Author

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, best known for his representations of Northern-Norwegian scenery and coastal history.

Background

Harr was born in Kvæfjord

Kvæfjord

Kvæfjord is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is part of the Hålogaland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Borkenes....

 in Troms

Troms

or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...

 and studied at the Norwegian Academy of Art. He is living in Kjerringøy

Kjerringøy

Kjerringøy is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village Kjerringøy.It was created when Nordfold-Kjerringøy was split into Kjerringøy and Nordfold on 1 January 1906. At that time Kjerringøy had a population of 857.On 1 January 1964 Kjerringøy was...

 in Nordland county

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

, Norway.

Career

Since his debut at Statens kunstutstilling during 1967, his works have been presented at numerous separate and collective exhibitions. Harr has illustrated the works of Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

. He has also made the indoor decorations for the Hurtigruten Coastal Express steamship Richard With.

Selected works

• 1973 Ytterst i verden
• 1974 Skarvene på Ut-Røst
• 1975 Nord i fjæra
• 1978 Nattlys
• 1983 Porten ved havet
• 1986 Sirilund
• 1988 Guds Nordenvind
• 1992 Der trollbåra bryt
• 1993 Den vakreste reisen
• 1994 Der skræg en fugl
• 1995 Malerier
• 1997 Fablenes farkost
• 1997 Draumkvædet
• 1999 Nordlandsbåten
• 2001 Dragsug
• 2001 Kunsten ombord
• 2001 Malerier av <=paintings by> Karl Erik Harr
• 2003 Vals i Concarneau
• 2003 Rotur i evigheten
• 2004 Hamsuns Nordland
• 2005 Morgen ved havet