Kjell Pahr Iversen

Artist Statement

As a boy in the city of Stavanger, my mother read to me the stories of H.C. Andersen. As a young man, I came to Copenhagen with hopes and I was in excitement of the invitation to the great Danish graphic artist, – Povl Christensen to develop and expand my modest skills in drawing and graphic arts.

My secondary option was to go to the University to study botany and biology. But I stayed in Copenhagen at that time – the capital of the Cobra-movement.

When I returned to Norway, I started on series of paintings, which I called:

“H.C. Andersen enters into heaven”. Many years later, in fact last summer, sitting in my studio, I was looking at the clippings of Andersen, and I suddenly felt mature enough to try once more: My H.C. Andersen-suite.

So, what´s my goal? I´m my vanity, I dream of a painting with a jubilant voice, a painting like a pictorial being in the category of embrasement. Nothing less.

Kjell Pahr-Iversen

Stavanger 22.01.25

Kjell Pahr Iversen
PastedGraphic 5,6,7,8
MORNING OVER ARARAT I
MORNING OVER ARARAT II
HERBARIUM I
HERBARIUM II
ICON «TORMENTED FACE"

Kjell Pahr Iversen 

 
 

Kjell Oddvar Pahr-Iversen (born December 22, 1937, in Stavanger) is a Norwegian painter.

He received his education at the School of Art and Crafts in Bergen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Pahr-Iversen is represented in institutions such as the National Gallery of Norway and several other museums.

He has completed numerous decorative art commissions and is a well-known contemporary Norwegian artist.

Pahr-Iversen shapes his paintings with light and shadow. He uses colors and brushstrokes in an expressionistic manner. He is deeply focused on light, employing a painting technique that gives his works a unique glow and intensity.

On November 12, 2017, Pahr-Iversen was appointed an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In 2020, he was appointed Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav for his contributions as an artist.

He is the brother of writer and former editor-in-chief Engwall Pahr-Iversen.

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