Kalle Løchen

Kalle Løchen (9 May 1865 – 20 November 1893) was a Norwegian painter and actor.

On 18 March 1892, his wife, Anna Løchen died and he fell into a deep depression. His daughters Esther and Nanna were sent to live with extended family. Løchen began to drink heavily and in May 1892, he quit the theatre and left Bergen. In 1893, he returned to Eastern Norway, and after a summer stay with his sister Helene in Sollia, he went to Kristiania where he began an engagement at the newly opened Carl Johan Theatre. Later that year, he was briefly engaged to actress Anna Nielsen, but struggled emotionally with the loss of his wife the year prior and his separation from his daughters. On 20 November 1893, Løchen committed suicide by gunshot in the forest in the Oslo neighborhood of Ekeberg.

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