Lagertha Munthe

She was born in Kristiania[1] as a daughter of Olaf Andreas Jens Wilhelm Munthe (1851–1914).

She was a grandniece of historian and cartographer Gerhard Munthe, a niece of historian Hartvig Andreas Munthe, painter Gerhard Munthe, writer Margrethe Munthe and Major General Carl Oscar Munthe, and a first cousin of librarian Wilhelm Munthe and genealogist Christopher Morgenstierne Munthe.

[2] She studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1911, under notable painters such as Christian Krohg, Halfdan Strøm, Oluf Wold-Torne and Henrik Sørensen.

Several of her landscape paintings are owned by the National Gallery of Norway.

[1] This article about a Norwegian painter is a stub.

Lagertha Munthe, photographed about 1935. The photograph belongs to the collection of the city museum of Oslo ("Oslo Museum").