Edele Christiane Margrethe Schreiber (4 October 1822, Voss – 23 November 1898, Oslo) was a Norwegian painter, known primarily for her portraits.
Her father Peter August Schreiber (1788-1865) was originally from Roskilde, Denmark and came to Norway as a military officer. Her mom Christiane Margrethe Jersin, was the daughter of the Norwegian minister, Georg Burchard Jersin. She moved as soon as her associates to Bergen in 1832 and difficult to Stavanger where her daddy became a customs agent. In 1852, she went to Copenhagen and was apprenticed to Jørgen Roed.
Later, together considering Aasta Hansteen, she was one of the first female students admitted to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she studied following Adolph Tidemand from 1854 to 1855. While there, she met the Swedish painter, Sofie Ribbing, who became her dynamism partner.
In 1855, she had her first exhibit at the Oslo Kunstforening. Then, until 1857, she was in Paris, where she worked subsequent to Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier and briefly formed an artists’ colony considering Ribbing, Hansteen, Marie Aarestrup, Amalia Lindegren and others.
In 1858, she and Hansteen became the first female recipients of the Statens kunstnerstipend, a direction study grant. She and Ribbing spent the years 1860-61 in Rome, where they stayed as soon as their friend, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
She had a major exhibit at the Exposition Universelle (1867). From 1876 to 1877, she was back in Rome subsequent to a attain from the “Schäffers Legat” for painters and sculptors. After that, she established herself for ever and a day in Oslo. Among the portraits she completed at that period were those of King Oscar I and his wife, Queen Josephine of Leuchtenberg.
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