Lars Jorde

He entered the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in 1889.

He studied under Gerhard Munthe, Alfred Philippe Roll, Eilif Peterssen and Harriet Backer, and Kristian Zahrtmann.

In 1905, he moved to Lillehammer and in 1912 to a house that Thorvald Erichsen had had built based upon design by Arnstein Arneberg.

[2] He provided decorative work at the Vingrom chapel in Lillehammer (1908), the student hall at the Norwegian College of Agriculture in Ås, and made a series of decorations for Granheim Sanatorium in Follebu (1908–27).

[2] He painted in different styles over the course of his career, and is represented with several works in the National Gallery of Norway.