KROHG Per [Åsgårdstrand, 1899 - Oslo, 1965], illustrateur et peintre norvégien.

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KROHG Per [Åsgårdstrand, 1899 - Oslo, 1965], illustrateur et peintre norvégien.
He is known to have painted a mural at the United Nations Security Council in New York. Set of two signed autograph letters [addressed to the poet Maurice Cremnitz (1875-1935)]. 4 pages in-8°, with a drawing showing him on skis. - Saturday, January 29 [1916]. Handwritten letterhead "Per Krohg Sanitary Section Self-skiers. Postal sector 97". "Finally heard from you. I could never get your address. I'm so glad Lucy sent me your card. I'm in an all-Norwegian skier section. We transport wounded from the front on roads and in terrain inaccessible to automobiles. We are committed for the duration of the snow, i.e. about 3 months. Same conditions as American ambulances. Lucy and I arrived in Paris in April 1915, we spent the summer near Chartres and we have a new studio at 6 rue Vercingetorix. This way I'm closer to your dear old gay street. I've been near the front line for a month now and I'm doing better than ever. [...] Painting no longer exists for the moment, alas! La Rotonde alone hasn't changed in Paris. Always the same faces. The dome is empty of Krauts and Paul Fort rarely comes to the closet anymore." We enclose another letter signed by him, Lucy and Maurice Cremnitz's wife. Maurice Cremnitz, alias Maurice Chevrier, poet of the Romanesque School and art critic, longtime friend of Apollinaire and one of the companions of the BateauLavoir and the Closerie des Lilas, appears in the famous painting by Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire et ses amis (1909).
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