Ellen Iden

Ellen Nordan Lund Iden (January 24, 1897 – November 12, 1961) was a Norwegian painter known for her landscapes, pictures of flowers, interior paintings, and portraits using finely tuned coloring.

Biography Ellen Nordan Lund Iden was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of Major Ivar Johannessen Lund (1861–1936) and the painter Jacobine Nordan Lund (1867–1941). She studied under Othon Friesz at the former Académie Moderne in Paris in 1920, and then at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts under Axel Revold from 1931 to 1932. She also studied under Leon Aurdal. Her first solo exhibition coincided with a memorial exhibition for him, held at the Artists' Association Gallery in 1943. Iden was part of an artists' colony that developed in the postwar years in Flosta. Together with others, including Ivar Jerven, Kjerstin Øvrelid, Knut Monrad, Finn Strømsted, Bodil Cappelen, Finn Henrik Bodvin, and Liv Nergaard, an artistic environment was created that drew inspiration from nature and the skerries. A number of her landscape motifs draw upon this background. In a letter to Agnes Hiorth from her summer home in Holmesund, she wrote the following:

Ellen Nordan Lund Iden died in Oslo.