Sigrid Undset
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Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Sigrid Undset 1928
Undset as a young girl
Undset at work at Bjerkebæk
Bjerkebæk, Undset's home, now part of Maihaugen museum
Anders Castus Svarstad
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Anders Castus Svarstad was a Norwegian painter, most frequently associated with his urban landscapes.
Sigrid Undset
…with Southern Europe meant a great deal to her; she made friends within the circle of Scandinavian artists and writers in Rome. In Rome, Undset met Anders Castus Svarstad, a Norwegian painter, whom she married almost three years later. She was 30; Svarstad was thirteen years older, married, and had a wife and three…
Palonetto Santa Lucia, Naples (1909)
Via Bocca di Leone, Rome (1908)
Street View in Oslo (1922)
Foundation Ceremony at the City Hall (1931)