Alfred Hauge (painter)

In the spring of 1894, he left school intending to study painting at Harriet Backer's art college in Stockholm.

Backer asked Lars Jorde, one of her students, to take Hauge to Gudbrandsdalen in June 1894 so that he could spend the summer months with the other painters from the school at the collective known as Vågåsommeren.

The others in the group were Thorvald Erichsen, Johanna Bugge, Halfdan Egedius, Kristen Holbø, Lalla Hvalstad, Kris Laache, Alice Pihl, and Oluf Wold-Torne.

[1] Influenced by Wold-Torne, he decided to continue his studies in Copenhagen the following November under Kristian Zahrtmann, who not only proved an excellent teacher but became a close friend.

He returned to Norway in May 1995, settling in a house on the island of Ona which attracted Norwegian, German and Danish artists.