Oscar Wergeland

Oscar Wergeland studied at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The recorded working language is Norwegian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history and portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Oslo, Copenhagen and Paris. Employment is recorded with Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. Work by Oscar Wergeland is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Oslo Museum, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norwegian Maritime Museum and Trondheim art museum.

His parents were Sverre Nicolai Wergeland (1817–1896) and Anne Margrethe Larsen (1817–1889). His sister was Agnes Mathilde Wergeland (1857–1914), who emigrated to the United States and became known as an author. He was the great-nephew of Nicolai Wergeland, a priest, writer, and politician, and a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll. Hence Henrik Wergeland, Camilla Collett, and Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland were cousins of his father.

Wergeland was born in Oslo, Norway. Several of his siblings died early, and his father went to America around 1860. He was a student of David Arnesen (1818–1895) during 1859 and of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1865 to 1867. He also attended the art school operated by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822–1870) from 1865 to 1869. He was a student at the Copenhagen Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1869. He studied history painting in Munich 1874 – 1876, and lived in Munich until 1889. From 1889 he was teaching at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Kristiania. The painting Riksforsamlingen på Eidsvoll 1814 was probably begun in 1882. Wergeland copied well over 60 portrait to get the result as credible as possible. The picture includes 55 portraits of the constitutional fathers. (Not all of the 112 persons are viewable.) Today it is located in the Norwegian Parliament, behind the speaker's platform and the presidential podium. The painting was used as the main reverse motif of Norwegian 100 kroner notes from 1962 to 1977. Additionally the painting appeared on several Norwegian postage stamps issued during 1918 for the 100th anniversary of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll.

Inga kongsmor betror Håkon Håkonsson til birkebeinerne (1869) Nordmennene lander på Island (1877) Frühschoppen, antakelig (1883) Gudstjeneste i en tysk landsbykirke, antakelig, (1883) Murere i arbeid, utvendig frise, antakelig (1892)