Kitty Lange Kielland

Kitty Lange Kielland (8 October 1843 – 1 October 1914) was a Norwegian landscape painter.

Kielland prepared studies while she was in Jæren and later used these to paint the characteristically flat landscape when she returned to Munich, making her the first artist to do so. Her painting of Jæren shows a realistic depiction of the landscape, but with unifying atmospheric effects. The skill with which the landscape was executed marks her as one of Gude's most outstanding students. In Paris, she exhibited her paintings for the first time.

Kielland painted little towards the end of her life. She suffered from senile dementia for several years, and finally died in Kristiania in 1914.

A street in Bærum, a suburb west of Oslo, is named for her.

Selected works