Hjalmar Kristian Haalke (12 April 1894 – 1 December 1964) was a Norwegian painter.

[2] He trained at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1915 to 1917, with Eivind Nielsen as an instructor.

He studied in Paris, first as a student of Pedro Araujo 1921–22, Roger Bissière and Per Krohg 1926–27, Henry de Waroquier in 1930 and Charles Dufresne 1930–31.

He developed the basis for the strict composition and the simplified image elements that became representative of his art.

These include To søstre and Sjodalsvannet from 1936, Ilåa, høst i Jotunheimen from 1948, and Fra Vågå from 1954.