Carl Dørnberger

He was the son of Johann Christopher Dörnberger from Nuremberg and Augusta Charlotte Wilhelmine Luise Mönch from Stralsund.

When he was eight years old the family traveled back to Germany, where he lived until became a student of David Arnesen (1818-1895) and Johan Jacob Bennetter (1822-1904) in Christiania (now Oslo) at the age of seventeen.

That same year he married Lina Gurine Berg Isachen, and they had a daughter, Gro Franciska Dørnberger (born 1904).

Dørnberger had many famous artists in his circle, including Edvard Munch and Akseli Gallen-Kallela, who both painted portraits of him.

Many of Dørnberger's works are motifs from Son, including the historic buildings in the town center and the steamer jetty lying below his house.