Kirsten Berg

1923 - 1998

Kirsten Traasdahl Moeller was born in Skelund, Himmerland in Denmark.

She had a natural talent for drawing and painting like her two sisters Jytte and Annelise and her brother Thomas Traasdahl. As young was she trained as nurse in Aarhus, Denmark. To the great delight of the children in the children's section in the hospital, did she make drawing-portraits of them and made Walt Disney-drawings to them.

She met Poul Berg in Aarhus. They got married in 1944, and she changed her name to Kirsten Berg.
They took residens in Aarhus. Their son Uffe was born there in 1945, and their daughter Ruth was born in 1949.

They moved to Binderup, Himmerland in 1952 - and later on to the town Aars.

Their daughter Pia was born in the spring - 1956, and they moved later on that year to the town Sundswall in the Northern part of Sweden. Kirsten Berg began seriously her oilpainting, and painted beautiful gipsy women. Their youngest daughter Eva was born in 1959.

They went back to Denmark in 1961, and bought a village school, which was closed down, in Oester-Svenstrup - near the town Brovst. They fittered the 1'st floor out as a studio and the ealier classrooms became exhibition-rooms.

Kirsten Berg was very fascinatet by childrens mind - the spontaneous and unspoiled - the child's closed fantasy-world and it's intense curiosity and openness. She portraited that in a relaxed and natural way without any kind of sloppy sentiment.

Kirsten Berg's paintings became populare and much coveted, and were sold to high prices in Denmark and Sweden.

They sold the village school in 1978 and moved to the town Hobro.

Kirsten and Poul Berg got divorced In 1980.

She married the violin maker Konrad Stormark from the town Bergen in Norway in 1982. They took residens in Aarhus after one year in Hobro, and Kirsten Berg lived there untill she died because of illness - 75 years old.

 

Artikel i KUNST Nr. 7 1966 - Kunstnerparret Kirsten og Poul Berg

Artikel om malerinden Kirsten Berg og diktatur i kunsten

 

 

written and translated by Pia Berg